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The Performance of Philosophizing in the Platonic Lovers
- American Journal of Philology
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 139, Number 3 (Whole Number 555), Fall 2018
- pp. 397-421
- 10.1353/ajp.2018.0023
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Abstract
Abstract:
The Lovers, a dialogue passed down with the Platonic corpus, takes up two questions that should be of interest to philosophers: "Is philosophizing beautiful?" and "What is philosophizing?" Despite its seemingly problematic handling of both questions, we show that the dialogue is in fact a sophisticated treatment of these questions. Socrates' refutations of his principal interlocutor's accounts of philosophizing reveal conditions for an adequate account, while his interaction with both rival lovers displays philosophizing in action and illustrates the way it can be beautiful.
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