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The English term "platonic" dates back to William Davenant's The Platonick Lovers, performed in 1635, a critique of the philosophy of platonic love which was popular at Charles I's court. The play was derived from the concept in Plato's Symposium of a person's love for the idea of good, which he considered to lie at the root of all virtue and ...
Lorenzo de' Medici was the patron of both Botticelli and Ficino, and extant letters suggest Ficino may have been consulted about the subjects of Botticelli's paintings. Though almost all of Plato's dialogues were unavailable in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, Neo-Platonism and its allegorical philosophy became well-known through various ...
Miguel de Cervantes popularized the redirection to Plato in Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter 51. Leonardo Tarán has traced the antecedents of Cervantes' adage in an eponymous 1984 paper. [ 8 ] Logician Alfred Tarski excused his Platonism by amending the formula to Inimicus Plato sed magis inimica falsitas ("Plato is an enemy, but falsehood is a ...
In this work, she combines approaches of both Heidegger and Jaspers, her most influential teachers.Arendt's interpretation of love in the work of St. Augustine deals with three concepts, love as craving or desire (Amor qua appetitus), love in the relationship between man (creatura) and creator (Creator - Creatura), and neighborly love (Dilectio proximi), and is constructed in three sections ...
Symposium, english translation by Benjamin Jowett public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Angela Hobbs' podcast interview on Erotic Love in the Symposium; Approaching Plato: A Guide to the Early and Middle Dialogues; BBC In Our Time: Plato's Symposium. (Radio programme discussing the Symposium) Crompton, Louis. "Plato (427–327 B.C.E.): The ...
La théorie platonicienne de l'amour, 1908 (transl. and ed.) Plato, Oeuvres complètes, 1920; La pensée grecque et les origines de l'esprit scientifique, 1923. English translation, Greek thought and the origins of the scientific spirit, 1928; La morale antique, 1938; Pyrrhon et le scepticisme grec, 1944
Plato's Phaedrus and his later work The Republic discuss thumos as one of the three constituent parts of the human psyche.In the Phaedrus, Plato depicts logos as a charioteer driving the two horses eros and thumos (erotic love and spiritedness are to be guided by logos).
"Sebben, crudele" is an aria from Antonio Caldara's 1710 opera, La costanza in amor vince l'inganno (Faithfulness in love conquers treachery). It comes from the third scene of the opera's first act, and is sung by the character Aminta, a nobleman whose wife is unfaithful.