Plato’s Erotic World, From Cosmic Origins to Human Death

This book examines the fundamental importance of eros in Plato’s writing, which views the human soul as primordially erotic. Challenging the traditional designation of specific dialogues as the “erotic dialogues,” Jill Gordon argues that eros permeates Plato’s fictive world, including the metaphysical, epistemological, and cosmological conversations in Timaeus, Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus, and Phaedo.

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