When we use the word “Eros” today, we often invoke assumptions shaped more by psychoanalysis than by the ancient Greek god of love. Psychoanalytic thinkers have long been drawn to Plato’s Symposium.

It was probably inevitable, but is deeply sad, that Plato’s Symposium (circa 380 BCE), has been drawn into the culture wars. A dialogue of great complexity and elegance, the book is one of the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper gives a new interpretation of the central section of Plato's Symposium (199d-212a). According to this interpretation, the term ...

Description: What draws us to politics? Is political ambition an extension or a betrayal of the love of other human beings? What is the relationship between the ordering of our loves and public order?

Platonic love is named after the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who described this type of love in his work “Symposium.” He described platonic love as a feeling that strays away from the physical ...

Here’s a puzzle: Rebecca Newberg Goldstein has released a very solid and well-received book, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away. Half-dialogue, half-explanatory essay, practically ...