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Given the prodigious amount of scholarship on Platonic love, this article explores a different question: the nature of Plato's love for Socrates as expressed in two dialogues, the Symposium and Phaedo, in which Plato depicts Socrates as surrounded by his lovers and disciples.
According to Vlastos, the defects in Plato's account of love can be seen by comparing it with the definition of love Vlastos accepts, and which he adopts from Aristotle-"Love is wishing good things for someone for that person's sake."
At the heart of Plato’s theory of erōs is the ‘ascent’ of love for an individual body, through several stages, to love of Beauty itself (Symposium 210a-212b). I argue that our understanding of the psychology of this transformation would benefit especially from bringing in Plato’s views on pain from the Republic.
Platonic love forms such a perennial undercurrent to Christian thought. This transcendental aspect forms a vital through-line from pagan antiquity to its Christianization in late antiquity by Augustine and via the Middle Ages to the Italian Renaissance. Several aspects of Platonic love are exam-ined against the background of this transcendental ...
The Platonic conception of love is summarized as follows: 1. "Eros is the 'love of desire,' or acquisitive love. The most obvious thing about Eros is that it is a desire, a longing, a striving. . . . Plato is fundamentally unaware of any other form of love than acquisitive love." Platonic love is always motivated by the value of its object. 2.
Given the prodigious amount of scholarship on Platonic love, this article explores a different question: the nature of Plato's love for Socrates as expressed in two dialogues, the Symposium and Phaedo, in which Plato depicts Socrates as surrounded by his lovers and disciples.
1) The document discusses Plato's Symposium, which contains speeches by prominent Athenians examining the nature of love. 2) Plato uses the speeches to explore philosophical concepts of love and its relationship to philosophy.
