Anyone who, possessed of some previous acquaintance with the Aristotelian corpus, reads their work is inevitably stimulated to return to Aristotle with his mind full of fresh ideas. There would be little profit in writing short notes on isolated points in the arguments of the two (. It is a subject which must be considered as a whole. 76, Socrates/A history of Greek philosophy, Volume III, Part 2, by W.K.C.The work of Professor Jaeger on the Aristotelian metaphysics, and its modification by the late Hans von Arnim, have raised many new points of the greatest interest, and may, I hope, be considered as having opened up a large and fascinating new field for discussion rather than as having closed the matter. That, says Socrates, is what is meant by initiation into the final mysteries of ta erotika and that is a fundamental doctrine of Platonism, a philosophy to a large extent inspired by Socrates himself.” - p. On this ultimate, indeed divine level, beauty and goodness and truth are one, and the vision of this supreme reality, says Plato through the mouth of Socrates, is only possible to the man who is by nature a lover, for the power which leads to it is the power of eros. “But in fact this eros in us is a spiritual force, and by shunning its lower manifestations and learning its true nature, we may allow it to lead us upwards (as Socrates is made to expound it in the Symposium) from passionate desire for a particular body to an aesthetic enjoyment of visible beauty in general, from that to beauty of character, higher still to the intellectual beauty of the sciences, until by persevering to the end we are granted the sudden vision of beauty perceived not with the bodily eye at all, but with the eye of the soul or mind.
The wisdom and scholarship have fulfilled my soul, all thanks to a stupid book which I plan to refute in full. I downloaded it to my Kindle Fire, and I’ve read 80 pages (40% of the book) in 24 hours. Much to my joy, I found one of the books on a filesharing site, and on Scribd. It nonetheless lead me to some really good academic works, all of which I added to my Wishlist on my Amazon account.Īll of these books are over 200 pages and sell for upwards of $40 (used) on Amazon. I discovered it by following a bibliography of a book on Socrates I did not like (“Socrates in 90 Minutes”, by Paul Strathern), and saw the list of sources mostly populated with Oxford and Cambridge University Presses from the 1970s this is from a terrible book on Socrates published in 1997 and originally sold for $5.95, which dismissed Socrates and derided Plato on every page.
Guthrie, Volume III, Part 2 of which is devoted to Socrates. I have been blessed, possibly because I have been praying lately, with a digital copy of a voluminous work on Socrates, originally titled “A History of Greek Philosophy”, by W.K.C.
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