{"product_id":"love-friendship-beauty-and-the-good-plato-aristotle-and-the-later-tradition-hardcover-1","title":"Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good: Plato, Aristotle, and the Later Tradition - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Corrigan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells a compelling story about love, friendship, and the Divine that took over a thousand years to unfold. It argues that mind and feeling are intrinsically connected in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus; that Aristotle developed his theology and physics primarily from Plato's Symposium (from the \"Greater\" and \"Lesser Mysteries\" of Diotima-Socrates' speech); and that the Beautiful and the Good are not coincident classes, but irreducible Forms, and the loving ascent of the Symposium must be interpreted in the light of the Republic, as the later tradition up to Ficino saw. Against the view that Platonism is an escape from the ambiguities of ordinary experience or opposed to loving individuals for their own sakes, this book argues that Plato dramatizes the ambiguities of ordinary experience, confronts the possibility of failure, and bequeaths erotic models for the loving of individuals to later thought. Finally, it examines the Platonic-Aristotelian heritage on the Divine to discover whether God can love us back, and situates the dramatic development of this legacy in Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, and Dionysius the Areopagite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University, Atlanta. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGregory and Evagrius: Mind, Soul and Body in the 4\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2009)\u003ci\u003e; Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought\u003c\/i\u003e (2017); \u003ci\u003ePlotinus, Ennead VI 8: On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One\u003c\/i\u003e (2017, with John D. Turner).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 170\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52724269023539,"sku":"9781532645501","price":54.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/XBTuFXbSRo9781532645501.webp?v=1763690175","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/love-friendship-beauty-and-the-good-plato-aristotle-and-the-later-tradition-hardcover-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}