The erotic synousia between disciple and teacher is a common element in the works of the first-generation Socratics. It occurs in Antisthenes, Aeschines, Phaedo, Xenophon, and Plato. All of them elaborate on different modalities of the paideutic Eros. A common thread this paper aims to explore is the ambiguous nature of such Eros, that is, the dichotomy between a ‘vulgar’ Eros (i.e. Pandemos) and a ‘spiritual’ Eros (Uranos), which is aimed at transcending the bodily and sexual love so as to enhance the practice of philosophy.

Socrates’s Ambivalent Erotes

stavru, alessandro
2019-01-01

Abstract

The erotic synousia between disciple and teacher is a common element in the works of the first-generation Socratics. It occurs in Antisthenes, Aeschines, Phaedo, Xenophon, and Plato. All of them elaborate on different modalities of the paideutic Eros. A common thread this paper aims to explore is the ambiguous nature of such Eros, that is, the dichotomy between a ‘vulgar’ Eros (i.e. Pandemos) and a ‘spiritual’ Eros (Uranos), which is aimed at transcending the bodily and sexual love so as to enhance the practice of philosophy.
2019
Eros, Socrates, Knowledge, Ambivalence
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