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Socrates and DiotimaBeauty Itself

Socrates and Diotima: Beauty Itself [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 a wide “sea of beauty” in human practices, arrangements, systems of legislation, fields of knowledge. All involved seeing along with acting. But now, Diotima warns Socrates, there is a final knowledge that he may have trouble achieving, a vision at the very horizon of human experience. Beyond the attraction of any individual beautiful thing is the fact of beauty itself that survives any one beautiful thing. This is not a particular physical or mental entity, not any one idea or form; the final “theoretic” vision is comprehensive, ranging over a wide field of phenomena as a glimpse of what sustains and binds them together.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Socrates and DiotimaBeauty Itself

Part of the Breaking Feminist Waves Book Series
Nye, Andrea
Socrates and Diotima — Dec 1, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
ISBN
978-1-349-57292-2
Pages
47 –60
DOI
10.1057/9781137514042_4
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Abstract

[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 a wide “sea of beauty” in human practices, arrangements, systems of legislation, fields of knowledge. All involved seeing along with acting. But now, Diotima warns Socrates, there is a final knowledge that he may have trouble achieving, a vision at the very horizon of human experience. Beyond the attraction of any individual beautiful thing is the fact of beauty itself that survives any one beautiful thing. This is not a particular physical or mental entity, not any one idea or form; the final “theoretic” vision is comprehensive, ranging over a wide field of phenomena as a glimpse of what sustains and binds them together.]

Published: Dec 1, 2015

Keywords: Final Knowledge; Mental Entity; Beautiful Thing; Final Vision; Mortal Life

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