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Eros, Wisdom and Silence - Plato's Erotic Dialogues (Hardcover)
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Eros, Wisdom and Silence - Plato's Erotic Dialogues (Hardcover)
Series: Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy
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Eros, Wisdom, and Silence is a close reading of Plato's Seventh
Letter and his dialogues Symposium and Phaedrus, with significant
attention also given to Alcibiades I. A book about love, James
Rhodes's work was conceived as a conversation and meant to be read
side by side with Plato's works and those of his worthy
interlocutors. It invites lovers to participate in conversations
that move their souls to love, and it also invites the reader to
take part in the author's dialogues with Plato and his
commentators. Rhodes addresses two closely related questions: (1)
What does Plato mean when he says in the Seventh Letter that he
never has written and never will write anything concerning that
about which he is serious? and (2) What does Socrates mean when he
claims to have an art of eros and that this techne is the only
thing he knows? Through careful analysis, Rhodes establishes
answers to these questions. He determines that Plato cannot write
anything concerning that about which he is serious because his most
profound knowledge consists of his soul's silent vision of
ultimate, transcendent reality, which is ineffable. Rhodes asserts
that Leo Strauss and his students are wrong to say that Plato is an
esoteric writer who keeps secrets from and deliberately dupes the
many. For Socrates, Rhodes shows, eros is a symbol for the soul's
experience of divine reality, which pulls every element of human
nature toward its proper end, but which also leads people to evil
and tyranny when human resistance causes it to become diseased.
Opening up a new avenue of Plato scholarship, Eros, Wisdom, and
Silence is political philosophy at its conversational best.
Scholars and students in political philosophy,classical studies,
and religious studies will find this work invaluable.
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