Plato: White and Non-white Love

Plato’s dialogues, the Symposium, and Phaedrus, provide a reasonableexplanation of love. G. Vlastos and M. Nussbaum do not share such anopinion. The former contends that Plato’s view of love is about lovingonly a person’s beauty, but not the entire person; thus, it falls short of anappropriate expla...

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Main Author: Amo Sulaiman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Santo Tomas 2009-06-01
Series:Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy
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Online Access:http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_5/sulaiman_june2009.pdf