Socrates on friendship and community
Subtitle: reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis
By: Mary P. Nichols.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780521899734
Subjects: Socrates; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900; Kierkegaard, Søren, -- 1813-1855; Plato; Plato; Plato; Love; Friendship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The problem of Socrates : Kierkegaard and Nietzsche; title: Kierkegaard : Socrates vs. the God; title: Nietzsche : call for an artistic Socrates; title: Plato's Socrates; title: Love, generation, and political community (the Symposium); title: The prologue; title: Phaedrus' praise of nobility; title: Pausanias' praise of law; title: Eryximachus' praise of art; title: Aristophanic comedy; title: Tragic victory; title: Socrates' turn; title: Socrates' prophetess and the daemonic; title: Love as generative; title: Alcibiades' dramatic entrance; title: Alcibiades' images of socrates; title: Alcibiades' praise of Socrates' virtues; title: Aftermath; title: The incompleteness of the Symposium; title: Self-knowledge, love, and rhetoric (Plato's Phaedrus); title: The setting; title: Non-lovers (Lysias' speech and Socrates' first speech); title: Souls and their fall; title: Lovers and their ascent; title: Prayer to love; title: Contemporary rhetoric and politics; title: A genuine art of rhetoric; title: Writing; title: Prayer to Pan; title: Who is the friend? (the Lysis); title: Joining the group; title: Getting acquainted; title: Seeking a friend; title: Are friends the ones loving, the ones loved, or both?; title: Are likes friends?; title: Are unlikes friends?; title: Are those who are neither good nor bad friends to the good?; title: Are the kindred friends?; title: Who might friends be?; title: Friendly communities; title: Socratic philosophizing; title: Socrates' youthful search for cause; title: Socrates' second sailing and the ideas; title: Piety, poetry, and friendship.