Socrates on friendship and community : reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis, Mary P. Nichols

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Socrates on friendship and community : reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis, Mary P. Nichols

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reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis

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Mary P. Nichols

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• Socrates on friendship and community : reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis

Publication

• Cambridge | New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index

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online resource

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Contents

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

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1 online resource (viii, 229 pages)

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9780521148832

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(OCoLC)667001119