Plato's Symposium: The Ethics of Desire

by Frisbee Sheffield

Book Overview

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, analyzing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199286779
• ISBN13: 9780199286775
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.7"