Socrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus,andLysis

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Cambridge University Press, 2009 - 229 sider
In Socrates on Friendship and Community, Mary P. Nichols addresses Kierkegaard's and Nietzsche's criticism of Socrates and recovers the place of friendship and community in Socratic philosophizing. This approach stands in contrast to the modern philosophical tradition, in which Plato's Socrates has been viewed as an alienating influence on Western thought and life. Nichols' rich analysis of both dramatic details and philosophic themes in Plato's Symposium, Phaedras, and Lysis shows how love finds its fulfilment in the reciprocal relation of friends. Nichols also shows how friends experience another as their own and themselves as belonging to another. Their experience, she argues, both sheds light on the nature of philosophy and serves as a standard for a political life that does justice to human freedom and community.
 

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Acknowledgments page
1
Love Generation and Political Community
25
Pausanias Praise of Law
39
Tragic Victory
52
Alcibiades Dramatic Entrance
70
The Incompleteness of the Symposium
86
Who Is a Friend? The Lysis
152
Getting Acquainted
162
Are Those Who Are Neither Good Nor Bad Friends
177
Are the Kindred Friends?
183
Friendly Communities
190
Socrates Youthful Search for Cause
197
Piety Poetry and Friendship
207
Works Cited
217
Index
223
Copyright

Are Friends the Ones Loving the Ones Loved or Both?
169

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Mary P. Nichols
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Om forfatteren (2009)

Mary P. Nichols is Professor of Political Science and Department Chair at Baylor University. She is the author of numerous books and articles in the history of political thought and politics, literature, and film. Her main areas of research are classical political theory (for example Citizens and Statesmen: A Commentary on Aristotle's 'Politics'), Shakespeare, and film directors such as Woody Allen, John Ford, and Alfred Hitchcock. She is a senior Fellow at The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York.

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TitelSocrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus,andLysis
ForfatterMary P. Nichols
Udgavegenoptrykt
UdgiverCambridge University Press, 2009
ISBN0521899737, 9780521899734
Længde229 sider
  
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