Socrates on friendship and community : reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis /
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| Author / Creator: | Nichols, Mary P. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | viii, 229 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7482537 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Problem of Socrates: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
- Kierkegaard: Socrates vs. the God
- Nietzsche: Call for an Artistic Socrates
- Plato's Socrates
- 2. 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
- 3. 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
- 4. 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
- 5. Socratic Philosophizing
- Socrates' Youthful Search for Cause
- Socrates' Second Sailing and the Ideas
- Piety, Poetry, and Friendship
- Works Cited
- Index