Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love

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
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 07/25/1996
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.42w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780198267669

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