Erotikos. Dialogue on love.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 12314 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 170 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2008 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251799964 |
Classic bilingual collection. The only Platonist of his time to return to the form of philosophical dialogue, Plutarch uses it here to treat the Platonic theme of Love, thus composing his "strangest and most sophisticated work, in which malice and profundity, the wisdom of the old author writing and the enthusiasm of the young married man he was at the time, philosophy and lived experience are combined - a work in some way in the image of love. Through a paradoxical fabrication, which subverts the themes of the novel, a virtuoso mixture of exposition and narration, of mythical, historical and contemporary examples, Plutarch indeed strives to think of love in all its plenitude, and his meditation takes on rather rare personal accents. We can thus know the harmonious way in which he himself lived his religion and his philosophy without having the feeling that there existed a solution of continuity between the two, the will which was his that rites and theories were not dead letters, but living realities continuing to inspire daily morality and to nourish the metaphysical hopes opened by the Phaedo.
Classic bilingual collection. The only Platonist of his time to return to the form of philosophical dialogue, Plutarch uses it here to treat the Platonic theme of Love, thus composing his "strangest and most sophisticated work, in which malice and profundity, the wisdom of the old author writing and the enthusiasm of the young married man he was at the time, philosophy and lived experience are combined - a work in some way in the image of love. Through a paradoxical fabrication, which subverts the themes of the novel, a virtuoso mixture of exposition and narration, of mythical, historical and contemporary examples, Plutarch indeed strives to think of love in all its plenitude, and his meditation takes on rather rare personal accents. We can thus know the harmonious way in which he himself lived his religion and his philosophy without having the feeling that there existed a solution of continuity between the two, the will which was his that rites and theories were not dead letters, but living realities continuing to inspire daily morality and to nourish the metaphysical hopes opened by the Phaedo.