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Plato's Symposium

The Ethics of Desire

Frisbee Sheffield author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:30th Apr '09

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Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted. For Plato, analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances of leading a worthwhile and happy life. In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection, this book explores Plato's ethics of desire.

the arguments are very clearly presented * Alessandra Fussi, The International Journal of the Platonic Traditin *

ISBN: 9780199567812

Dimensions: 215mm x 139mm x 14mm

Weight: 334g

264 pages