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Socrates and Diotima

Part of the Breaking Feminist Waves Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137514042

ISBN: 978-1-349-57292-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 1, 2015

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Introduction

Nye, Andrea

Pages: 1 –8

[There has been much debate about how to read and interpret the many ideas and opinions expressed in Plato’s dialogues. One approach, currently popular, is to treat the conversations recreated in the dialogues as literary fiction. On this view, characters and settings in the dialogues were...
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Daemonic Eros

Nye, Andrea

Pages: 11 –28

[In fifth-century Athens, a symposium—a “συµ-πóσιoν” or “drinking together”—was not the sedate affair it is today with professors sitting around a table discussing matters of scholarly interest. It was a festive even rowdy gathering not unlike a present-day fraternity party. Music played to spur...
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The Work of Love

Nye, Andrea

Pages: 29 –45

[Socrates is not alone in failing to understand Diotima’s teaching at this point. If Diotima’s suggestion of continuity between sexual desire and desire for the good has perplexed scholars, even more disconcerting has been her abrupt abandonment of “the good” and return to beauty. Are “good” and...
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Beauty Itself

Nye, Andrea

Pages: 47 –60

[Up to now, the lessons have been practical. Socrates has been urged to grasp the “work of love.” He is to move from love of one particular body to seeing beauty in many bodies, and on to beauty of spirit, and to beauty in customs and laws. The movement has been expansive and inclusive, out onto...
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The Spirit at the Center of the World

Nye, Andrea

Pages: 61 –75

[Although Parmenides’s goddess of Truth warned against the thought of any enlivening “mixing” spirit at the center of the world, Parmenides’s contemporary Empedocles, a practical man who participated in civic affairs and practiced medicine, insisted that, regardless of what logicians might claim,...
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The Highest One

Nye, Andrea

Pages: 79 –96

[In the teaching of Diotima, divinity is Eileithyia, Moira, Aphrodite. It is birth, fate, and beauty. It is the beauty that inspires the mating of lack and intelligence. It is the mutual desire that creates new forms of being. It is the attraction that leads to regeneration and rebirth and keeps...
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Demonizing the Daemonic

Nye, Andrea

Pages: 97 –114

[In Timaeus’s account of primal beginnings, creation takes place in two stages. The divine Creator first orders the material world according to mathematical principles. Then, being immortal himself, he must delegate to helpers or “demigods” the task of building to his specifications the mortal...
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Saint Augustine and Concupiscence of the Flesh

Nye, Andrea

Pages: 116 –130

[Like Phaedra in Euripides’s Hippolytus, Augustine had passions not easily denied. His struggle to tame the bad horse of the Phaedrus was prolonged, painful, and never completely successful. In his Confessions, he traced every agonizing humiliating step and misstep of the drama in colorful...
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The Eclipse of Beauty

Nye, Andrea

Pages: 131 –144

[Diotimean “Beauty” had begun to fade from “Platonic” consciousness as early as the Phaedrus. Introducing Phaedrus to the divine mysteries of a Pythagorean heaven, Socrates included Beauty along with Wisdom and Goodness as heavenly, colorless, formless, and visible only to the mind. Later, when...
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Religion without God

Nye, Andrea

Pages: 147 –167

[At a certain point in Plato’s Timaeus, Timaeus breaks off his story of the formation of the world according to arithmetic, geometric, and logical principles. There was something missing from his account, he says, something that has to be put “along side” works of “intelligence,” something that...

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