Ruling Passion: The Erotics of Statecraft in Platonic Political Philosophy. Waller Newell

Ruling Passion: The Erotics of Statecraft in Platonic Political Philosophy



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Ruling Passion: The Erotics of Statecraft in Platonic Political Philosophy Waller Newell ebook
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Page: 256
ISBN: 9780847697274


Ruling Passion is the only book-length study of tyranny, statesmanship, and civic virtue in three major Platonic dialogues, the Georgias, the Symposium, and the Republic. It is also the first extended interpretation of eros as the key to Plato's understanding of both the depths of human vice and the heights of human aspirations for virtue and happiness. Through his detailed commentary and eloquent insights on the three dialogues, Waller Newell demonstrates how, for Plato, tyranny is a misguided longing for erotic satisfaction that can be corrected by the education of eros toward the proper objects if its pleasure: civic virtue and philosophy. In unfolding these reflections through his analysis, Newell also

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