Socrates on Friendship and Community Reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis

Name: Socrates on Friendship and Community Reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis
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ISBN: 9780521148832

ISBN-10: 0521148839

ISBN-13: 9780521148832

Edition: 2010

Authors: Mary P. Nichols

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List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/17/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Problem of Socrates: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche


Kierkegaard: Socrates vs. the God


Nietzsche: Call for an Artistic Socrates


Plato's Socrates



Love, Generation, and Political Community (The Symposium)


The Prologue


Phaedrus' Praise of Nobility


Pausanias' Praise of Law


Eryximachus' Praise of Art


Aristophanic Comedy


Tragic Victory


Socrates' Turn


Socrates' Prophetess and the Daemonic


Love as Generative


Alcibiades' Dramatic Entrance


Alcibiades' Images of Socrates


Alcibiades' Praise of Socrates' Virtues


Aftermath


The Incompleteness of the Symposium



Self-Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric (Plato's Phaedrus)


The Setting


Non-Lovers (Lysias' Speech and Socrates' First Speech)


Souls and Their Fall


Lovers and Their Ascent


Prayer to Love


Contemporary Rhetoric and Politics


A Genuine Art of Rhetoric


Writing


Prayer to Pan



Who Is a Friend? (The Lysis)


Joining the Group


Getting Acquainted


Seeking a Friend


Are Friends the Ones Loving, the Ones Loved, or Both?


Are Likes Friends?


Are Unlikes Friends?


Are Those Who Are Neither Good Nor Bad Friends to the Good?


Are the Kindred Friends?


Who Might Friends Be?


Friendly Communities



Socratic Philosophizing


Socrates' Youthful Search for Cause


Socrates' Second Sailing and the Ideas


Piety, Poetry, and Friendship


Works Cited


Index