Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198267669)

This unique book challenges the traditional distinction between eros, the love found in Greek thought, and agape, the love characteristic of Christianity. Focusing on a number of classic texts, including Plato's Symposium and Lysis, Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics, , and famous passages in Gregory of Nyssa, Origen, Dionysius the Areopagite, Plotinus, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas, the author shows that Plato's account of eros is not founded on self-interest. In this way, she restores the place of erotic love as a Christian motif, and unravels some longstanding confusions in philosophical discussions of love

Author: Catherine Osborne
ISBN-10: 0198267665
ISBN-13: 9780198267669
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 07/25/1996
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.42w x 0.64d