Title
Eros and the Intoxications of Enlightenment : On Plato's Symposium
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Description
Author Steven Berg offers an interpretation of Plato’s Symposium wherein all the speakers at the banquet - with the exception of Socrates - not only offer their views on the nature of love, but represent Athens and the Athenian enlightenment. Accordingly, Socrates' speech, taken in relation to the speeches that precede it, is shown to articulate the relation between Socrates and the Athenian enlightenment, to expose the limitations of that enlightenment, and therefore finally to bring to light the irresolvable tension between Socrates and his philosophy and the city of Athens even at her most enlightened.
Department
Philosophy
ISBN
9781438430171
Publication Date
2010
Embargo Period
8-19-2016
Publisher
State University of New York Press
City
Albany
Keywords
Plato, Symposium, Eros, Love, Socrates
Disciplines
Ancient Philosophy | Philosophy | Poetry
Recommended Citation
Berg, Steven, "Eros and the Intoxications of Enlightenment : On Plato's Symposium" (2010). Faculty Books. 6.
https://scholarworks.bellarmine.edu/fac_book_gallery/6