Love and Beauty in Plato's Symposium: Only in the Contemplation of Beauty is Human Life Worth Living
Where:
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center, Urbana-Champaign
When:
Thursday Sep 13, 2007 7:30 pm
to 8:45 pm
Description:
CAS/MillerComm. Public Lecture. Free and open to the public. Alexander Nehamas Carpenter Professor of Humanities, Princeton University This lecture takes three ideas from Socrates famous speech on love (eros) in Platos Symposium and advances them as providing a plausible contemporary understanding of beauty: first, love desires to possess beauty; second, love desires to give birth in beautys presence; and third, love drives lovers to place beauty in ever broader contexts. These ideas bear remarkable similarities to Nietzsches views on beauty and illuminate the importance of beauty as a value in the general economy of life. This presentation keynotes the conference Life, the Universe, Everything and More: Plato's Timaeus Today held September 13 16. For more information visit www.timaeus.uiuc.edu.For more information:
Call 217-333-6729, or visit http://www.cas.uiuc.edu/casmillercomm.php
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