The Language of Love: An Interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus
Stanley Rosen, "The Language of Love: An Interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus"
English | ISBN: 1587314541 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1587314541 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Stanley Rosen completed The Language of Love in the early 1970s, but the manuscript was put aside and only rediscovered in 2013, the year before his death. The Language of Love is an interpretation of the Phaedrus that was meant to follow and complete Rosen’s Symposium commentary. Only two articles have been previously published. Rosen’s frequent references to the central passages and second half of the Phaedrus were more important in pointing up the importance of his absent full interpretation of the dialogue.
Here Rosen’s argue for the possibility of philosophy or the retrieval of human self-knowledge on the basis of a renewed argument for the partial intelligibility of ordinary experience or, in other words, for the Platonic Ideas. His book on the
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