Socrates on friendship and community : reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis / Mary P. Nichols.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Mary P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socrates.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Love.

Friendship.

Plato. Lysis.

Plato.

Plato. Phaedrus.

Plato. Symposium.

Physical Description:

viii, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction

The problem of Socrates : Kierkegaard and Nietzsche

Kierkegaard : Socrates vs. the God

Nietzsche : call for an artistic Socrates

Plato's Socrates

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

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

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

Socratic philosophizing

Socrates' youthful search for cause

Socrates' second sailing and the ideas

Piety, poetry, and friendship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.

ISBN:

9780521899734

0521899737

OCLC:

226984610