The erotic soul and its movement towards the Beautiful and the Good
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2000
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Universidad de Murcia
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González-Castán, Óscar L. (2000). “The Erotic Soul and its Movement towards the Beautiful and the Good”, Daímon. Revista Internacional de Filosofía 21 (La invención del logos), pp. 75-86.
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En este artículo investigo las relaciones temáticas que hay entre tres diálogos platónicos: Lisis, Banquete y República. En el primer diálogo abordo el carácter aporético que tiene su conclusión sobre la naturaleza radicalmente diversa que posee el fin último de "lo amigo mismo" respecto de las cosas que deseamos como medios para alcanzar ese fin. Dado este carácter aporético, considero que algunas tesis centrales de Banquete son un intento de diluir la solución paradójica propuesta en Lisis. Al hilo de esta discusión enfatizo que el problema de fondo de Banquete es explicar cómo el alma humana puede moverse y ascender en la jerarquía de objetos bellos hasta la contemplación de la Belleza en sí. A su vez, el diálogo República, especialmente libros VI y VII, representa un paso más allá en la resolución del problema que plantea la capacidad de movimiento del alma por la escala del ser y de los objetos de conocimiento.
In this paper I shall analyze the relationships that there are between three platonic dialogues: Lysis, Symposium and Republic. In the first dialogue, I study the problematic character of its conclusion according to which “friendship itself”, considered as the final end of human life, has a radically diverse nature in relation to the other things that we desire as means to achieve this final end. Given the difficulties that Lysis poses, I believe that a number of central theses in Symposium can be considered as an attempt of providing a solution to them. Along this discussion I underline the idea that the main problem of Symposium is to explain how the human soul moves through the hierarchy of beautiful objects until the contemplation of Beautiful itself. In Republic, especially Books VI and VII, Plato gives us a more sophisticated but unsatisfactory theory about the soul´s capacity of ascending up the scale of being and of objects of knowledge.
In this paper I shall analyze the relationships that there are between three platonic dialogues: Lysis, Symposium and Republic. In the first dialogue, I study the problematic character of its conclusion according to which “friendship itself”, considered as the final end of human life, has a radically diverse nature in relation to the other things that we desire as means to achieve this final end. Given the difficulties that Lysis poses, I believe that a number of central theses in Symposium can be considered as an attempt of providing a solution to them. Along this discussion I underline the idea that the main problem of Symposium is to explain how the human soul moves through the hierarchy of beautiful objects until the contemplation of Beautiful itself. In Republic, especially Books VI and VII, Plato gives us a more sophisticated but unsatisfactory theory about the soul´s capacity of ascending up the scale of being and of objects of knowledge.
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Artículo incluido en el ejemplar dedicado a: "La invención del logos".