Symposia

by Louis A. Ruprecht

"Socrates was wise, because he knew that he did not know anything; this has long been the prevailing wisdom of the Socratic-Platonic tradition. In Plato's Middle Period - spanning dialogues such as Phaedo, Symposium, Republic, and Phaedrus - Socrates consistently claims to have knowledge in one area: the erotic. This book argues that the underlining of erotic matters - in what it refers to as Plato's Erotic Period - marks the most significant and dramatic moment in Plato's career. Plato's attention to the erotic in this period calls for a fundamental reassessment of many of the most...

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