Scaling the Ladder. Why the Final Step of the Lover’s Ascent is a Generalizing Step
The ‘Scala Amoris’ (210a-212b), or ‘Ladder of Love’, constitutes the philosophical and aesthetic centrepiece of Socrates’ encomium of Eros in Plato’s Symposium. Here Diotima describes how a lover ascending up the Ladder directs his erotic attention to a number of difference kinds of beautiful object...
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| description | The ‘Scala Amoris’ (210a-212b), or ‘Ladder of Love’, constitutes the philosophical and aesthetic centrepiece of Socrates’ encomium of Eros in Plato’s Symposium. Here Diotima describes how a lover ascending up the Ladder directs his erotic attention to a number of difference kinds of beautiful objects, first bodies, then souls, just institutions and knowledge, until he catches a glimpse of Beauty itself. In this paper I advance an ‘inclusive’ reading of the lover’s ascent – to use Price’s 1991 terminology – with a particular emphasis on justifying such a reading concerning the final step.
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| spelling | doaj.art-00062b9681f9490b8f487a06ef197a4b2022-12-22T00:48:29ZengCoimbra University PressPlato2079-75672183-41052015-12-011510.14195/2183-4105_15_6Scaling the Ladder. Why the Final Step of the Lover’s Ascent is a Generalizing StepAnthony Hooper0The University of SydneyThe ‘Scala Amoris’ (210a-212b), or ‘Ladder of Love’, constitutes the philosophical and aesthetic centrepiece of Socrates’ encomium of Eros in Plato’s Symposium. Here Diotima describes how a lover ascending up the Ladder directs his erotic attention to a number of difference kinds of beautiful objects, first bodies, then souls, just institutions and knowledge, until he catches a glimpse of Beauty itself. In this paper I advance an ‘inclusive’ reading of the lover’s ascent – to use Price’s 1991 terminology – with a particular emphasis on justifying such a reading concerning the final step. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_15_6https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/2164PlatoSymposiumScala AmorisBeauty |
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| title | Scaling the Ladder. Why the Final Step of the Lover’s Ascent is a Generalizing Step |
| title_full | Scaling the Ladder. Why the Final Step of the Lover’s Ascent is a Generalizing Step |
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| title_short | Scaling the Ladder. Why the Final Step of the Lover’s Ascent is a Generalizing Step |
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