Suzanne Obdrzalek
Biographic Data
| ID | 5717949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Obdrzalek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Obdrzalek |
| SIGNATURE | OBDRZALEK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College https://dx.doi.org/2530 Claremont, California USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Platonic Dualism Reconsidered
I argue that in the Phaedo , Plato maintains that the soul is located in space and is capable of locomotion and of interacting with the body through contact. Numerous interpreters have dismissed these claims as merely metaphorical, since they assume that as an incorporeal substance, the soul cannot possess spatial attributes. But careful examination of how Plato conceives of the body throughout his corpus reveals that he does not distinguish it f…
Plato's Symposium
Plato's Symposium is an exceptionally multi-layered dialogue. At once a historical document, a philosophical drama that enacts abstract ideas in an often light-hearted way, and a literary masterpiece, it has exerted an influence that goes well beyond the confines of philosophy. The essays in this volume, by leading scholars, offer detailed analyses of all parts of the work, focusing on the central and much-debated theme of erōs or 'human desire' …
Moral Transformation and the Love of Beauty in Plato’s Symposium
This paper offers a new interpretation of Diotima’s speech in Plato’s Symposium . Diotima’s purpose, in discussing the lower lovers, is to critique their erōs as aimed at a goal it can never secure, immortality, and as focused on an inferior object, oneself. By contrast, in loving beauty, the philosopher gains a mortal sort of completion; in turning outside of himself, he also ceases to be preoccupied by his own incompleteness.
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Moral Transformation and the Love of Beauty in Plato’s Symposium
This paper offers a new interpretation of Diotima’s speech in Plato’s Symposium . Diotima’s purpose, in discussing the lower lovers, is to critique their erōs as aimed at a goal it can never secure, immortality, and as focused on an inferior object, oneself. By contrast, in loving beauty, the philosopher gains a mortal sort of completion; in turning outside of himself, he also ceases to be preoccupied by his own incompleteness.
Plato's Symposium
Plato's Symposium is an exceptionally multi-layered dialogue. At once a historical document, a philosophical drama that enacts abstract ideas in an often light-hearted way, and a literary masterpiece, it has exerted an influence that goes well beyond the confines of philosophy. The essays in this volume, by leading scholars, offer detailed analyses of all parts of the work, focusing on the central and much-debated theme of erōs or 'human desire' …
Platonic Dualism Reconsidered
I argue that in the Phaedo , Plato maintains that the soul is located in space and is capable of locomotion and of interacting with the body through contact. Numerous interpreters have dismissed these claims as merely metaphorical, since they assume that as an incorporeal substance, the soul cannot possess spatial attributes. But careful examination of how Plato conceives of the body throughout his corpus reveals that he does not distinguish it f…
Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works) · Ancient philosophy (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Beauty (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)