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Plato's Symposium

Frisbee Sheffield
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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 chancesof 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Frisbee Sheffield EAN: 9780199286775 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 458 g HEIGHT: 222 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2006-07-20 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical WIDTH: 141 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy

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      Frisbee Sheffield is Research Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge.
      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 chancesof 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Frisbee Sheffield EAN: 9780199286775 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 458 g HEIGHT: 222 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2006-07-20 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical WIDTH: 141 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy

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      Frisbee Sheffield is Research Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge.

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