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Eros And The Good
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Author : James Gouinlock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Eros And The Good written by James Gouinlock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Nature categories.
Plato defined eros as the yearning for things beautiful and good. It is on this original sense that philosopher James Gouinlock bases this insightful study of ethics and wisdom. Gouinlock argues that the only fruitful way to evaluate the norms of social life is to understand them as natural forces, not as arbitrary matters of convention or derivatives of some abstract theory. The good life and the meanings of life consist in the recognition and pursuit of values that are already resident in natural experience. Successful pursuit of them requires teaching, the accumulation of wisdom, and the cultivation of virtue. Above all is eros, the motivating force that drives us to search for life's most precious goods. In so doing we acquire a "wisdom according to nature." Inspired by Greek philosophy, Gouinlock's approach avoids the pitfalls of moral systems that evolve out of abstract theorizing and tend to ignore well-established practice and conviction. Gouinlock makes the important point that social practices, like natural forces, though subject to change in varying degrees, are rarely amenable to radical overhaul. The real values of common life occur in a difficult, demanding, and often-perilous environment. This is not a context in which anything goes, for it possesses inherent constraints as well as opportunities. As Gouinlock shows in detail, there is much wisdom to be gained from understanding the distinctive functions of nature in the conduct of life. Written with clarity and eloquence, this original and fully developed philosophy of life makes fundamental philosophical arguments accessible to educated lay readers as well as to professional philosophers.
Eros And Other Poems
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Author : Edmund Deacon Peterson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
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Holy Eros
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Author : James D. Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Orbis Books
Release Date : 2009
Holy Eros written by James D. Whitehead and has been published by Orbis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
Eros is the passionate energy that makes us one with the beautiful other, with a leper, with the world of nature waiting to be embraced and cared for, with our neighbor, the stranger, with God. The Whiteheads explore this vital energy of love as the gift of a Creator madly in love with his creation a God who would bring us to life in abundance if we only say "Yes." They discuss Eros in the movements of our sexuality, as well as in our arousals of compassion and care. They examine the Eros of pleasure and of generosity. They honor the Eros of hope, of anger, of suffering. They reveal that Eros has a Source far deeper than lust, and is a pathway to a passionate God. Holy Eros recovers this fundamental energy of love as a powerful resource in the revitalization of Christian spirituality. Unlike most books on the topic it eschews easy clichs. Its reader benefit is to understand and appreciate an energy that can heal as well as hinder and to tap into its positive force.
Plato S Erotic World
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Author : Jill Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-13
Plato S Erotic World written by Jill Gordon and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-13 with Philosophy categories.
Plato's entire fictive world is permeated with philosophical concern for Eros, well beyond the so-called erotic dialogues. Several metaphysical, epistemological and cosmological conversations - Timaeus, Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus and Phaedo - demonstrate that Eros lies at the root of the human condition and that properly guided Eros is the essence of a life well lived. This book presents a holistic vision of Eros, beginning with the presence of Eros at the origin of the cosmos and the human soul, surveying four types of human self-cultivation aimed at good guidance of Eros and concluding with human death as a return to our origins. The book challenges conventional wisdom regarding the 'erotic dialogues' and demonstrates that Plato's world is erotic from beginning to end: the human soul is primordially erotic and the well-cultivated erotic soul can best remember and return to its origins, its lifelong erotic desire.
Cupid And Psyche
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Author : Apuleius
language : en
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Release Date : 2021-11-07
Cupid And Psyche written by Apuleius and has been published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-07 with Education categories.
Cupid and Psyche Apuleius - Cupid and Psyche is a story from the Latin novel Metamorphoses, also known as The Golden Ass, written in the 2nd century AD by Apuleius. It concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche (Soul or Breath of Life) and Cupid (Desire), and their ultimate union in a sacred marriage.
Eros And Ethos
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Author : Jason Stotts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02-09
Eros And Ethos written by Jason Stotts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-09 with Philosophy categories.
Sexual ethics for those seeking a good life.
Politics Of Eros
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Author : Azucena G Blanco
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025-07-29
Politics Of Eros written by Azucena G Blanco and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
¿Cómo la tradición del eros en el pensamiento filosófico y literario nos ayuda a contemplar formas de resistencia al nihilismo actual? ¿Cómo propone una temporalidad ética que nos permita enunciar modos de vida buena? A partir de instrumentos foucaultianos de "comprensión crítica del presente" -en particular, sus reflexiones sobre el par eros-nihilismo, la biopolítica del cuidado y la estética de la res-/existencia literaria-, y en diálogo con sus contemporáneos (J.-L. Nancy, G. Deleuze, J. Kristeva, R. Barthes) y herederos (P. Hadot, J. Rancière, G. Agamben, R. Esposito, A. Negri, H. Rosa, E. Illouz), el libro pone la crisis del nihilismo contemporáneo en relación con la crisis del eros y la de la imaginación política (o eros revolucionario). Para esbozar nuevos modelos de imaginación, se formula una interpretación histórica (no esencialista) del eros, en la que se despliega en su dimensión ético-política como forma de cuidado capaz de generar prácticas para una vida buena.
Aphrodite And Eros
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Author : Barbara Breitenberger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13
Aphrodite And Eros written by Barbara Breitenberger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with History categories.
This book offers a groundbreaking revision of the popular image of Aphrodite and Eros that lives on in Roman poetry (Venus and Cupid) and has inspired artists for centuries. An interdisciplinary analysis of the Archaic period - using literary, iconographical, and cultic evidence - shows the distinct concept behind the two deities of love. Aphrodite's character, sphere of influence, and function feature in her traditional myths and are well reflected in cult. Eros, however, was not yet a similarly personified mythical figure at that stage, nor did he have an individual cult. Breitenberger follows the different stages of the development of Eros's personality. Originally a cosmic entity and an unpersonified aspect of Aphrodite, he was given his mythical identity by successive archaic lyric poets who were particularly keen to mythologize a male counterpart to the established love-goddess Aphrodite. This male love-god turns out to be the divinized homoerotic ideal of the male aristocracy 'worshipped' at their symposia. The development of the male love-god is taken as an example to demonstrate that poets' artistic innovation as well as their social and historical background played an important role in creating Greek mythology.
Plato S Eros
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Author : Augustinus Miri
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-02-25
Plato S Eros written by Augustinus Miri and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-25 with Study Aids categories.
Quote: "Why is it that Eros holds both the secret of questions and answers, and the secret of an insistence in all our existence?" (Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, p. 107). Extract: "Plato's dialogues do not give us answers. They engage in a dialogue with concepts, examining how concepts are constructed from our narratives. On the one hand, concepts are created by persuasive narratives made up of words, phrases, and categorical beliefs. This has led us to see Eros as the most beautiful and therefore the one we love. But this makes Eros a great and deceptive happiness of what is the good, says Diotima. If we think of Eros as love, it is because historically, we have learned to love Eros as the most beautiful. On the other hand, we can learn to think with Eros." The book Plato's Eros delves into the story of Eros. It is Plato's concept in the Symposium of a philosophy of consciousness that emerges from a poetry of beauty. To Plato, Eros is not a synonym for something specific or an expression of love, but embodies opposing views and different perceptions. As an opposite principle, Eros inspires our heart to feel, our mind to wonder, and our intellect to think. At its heart, the book illustrates how Plato transforms storytelling into a poetry about the heart of consciousness, as an infinitely poetic expression of our power to create, explore, and understand, because to Plato, the purpose of storytelling is not to seduce us with moral messages to learn from, but to inspire wonder that can make us the true tellers of our own stories. Quote: "It is question of 'making a difference', of distinguishing the 'thing' itself from its images, the original from the copy, the model from the simulacrum. [...] The Platonic project comes to light only when we turn back to the method of division, for this project is not just one dialectic procedure among others. It assembles the whole power of the dialectic in order to combine it with another power." (Gilles Deleuze The Logic of Sense, p. 291).
The Power Of Divine Eros
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Author : A. H. Almaas
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2013-09-17
The Power Of Divine Eros written by A. H. Almaas and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Two innovative spiritual teachers show how to use desire and passion—eros—as a gateway to realizing our fullest potential What do desire and passion have to do with our spiritual journey? According to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson, they are an essential part of it. Conventional wisdom cautions that desire and passion are opposed to the spiritual path—that engaging in desire will take you more into the world, into egoic life. And for most people, that is exactly what happens. We naturally tend to experience wanting in a self-centered way. The Power of Divine Eros challenges the view that the divine and the erotic are separate. When we open to the energy, aliveness, spontaneity, and zest of erotic love, we will find it inseparable from the realm of the holy and sacred. When this is understood, desire and passion become a gateway to wholeness and to realizing our full potential. Through guided exercises, the authors reveal how our relationships become opportunities on the spiritual journey to express ourselves authentically, to relate with openness, and to discover dynamic inner realms with another person. Through embodying the energy of eros, each of us can learn to be fully real and alive in all of our interactions.