This third volume of George Grote's essays examines Plato and the other companions of Socrates, focusing on the Phaedrus and the Symposium. Grote discusses Plato's idea of Eros, beauty, and philosophical love as a path toward higher understanding. It offers a careful scholar's guide to two central Platonic dialogues.
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PLATO, AND THE OTHER COMPANIONS OF SOKRATES. PLATO, and the OTHER COMPANIONS OF SOKRATES. by GEORGE GROTE, author of the ‘history of greece’. A NEW EDITION. IN FOUR VOLUMES.
Vol. III. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1888. The right of Translation is reserved. CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXVI. PHÆDRUS — SYMPOSION. These two are the two erotic dialogues of Plato. Phædrus is the originator of both 1
Eros as conceived by Plato. Different sentiment prevalent in Hellenic antiquity and in modern times. Position of women in Greece ib. Eros, considered as the great stimulus to improving philosophical communion. Personal Beauty, the great point of approximation between the world of sense and the world of Ideas. Gradual generalisation of the sentiment 4 All men love Good, as the means of Happiness, but they pursue it by various means. The name Eros is confined to one special case of this large variety 5 Desire of mental copulation and procreation, as the only attainable likeness of immortality, requires the sight of personal beauty as an originating stimulus 6 Highest exaltation of the erotic impulse in a few privileged minds, when it ascends gradually to the love of Beauty in general. This is the most absorbing sentiment of all 7
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