Socrates and Theognis on True Love
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F19%3A39915134" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/19:39915134 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/jpt/13/1/article-p24_2.xml" target="_blank" >https://brill.com/view/journals/jpt/13/1/article-p24_2.xml</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18725473-12341424" target="_blank" >10.1163/18725473-12341424</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Socrates and Theognis on True Love
Original language description
The study compares Theognis' and Socrates' concept of love: there is an ambivalence of love present in both authors in the form of a connection between the pleasing and the unpleasing, that is, on the one hand, devotion to the educatory harshness of the lover, on the other to his skill and cunning. To what extent is the ambivalence in Socrates and Theognis similar or dissimilar? The answer discloses a comparison of ideas about the functioning, the aims, and the meaning of love in the wider context of understanding the life and world of the two authors: such a context exposes the duplicity in Theognis, and the love of negation of unambiguous teaching about the proper life without painful testing. In Socrates, it is exposed to irony, to eternal ignorance and to openness to another and to god's world. Next, we contrast Theognis' limiting of another's duplicity (devotion and cunning) to a level between a loving and friendly relationship with Socrates' expansion of the loving struggle into every sphere of life, above all into the relationship of the lover to himself and those close to him. We explain this contrast as a decision between trust in reason and trust in love as the fundamental forces conferring meaning on human life. We show, however, that with Socrates it is not blind love but rather love embracing reason and overlapping divine challenges, while with Theognis it is not pure reason that is involved, but rather reason directed by the socio-political situation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of the Platonic Tradition
ISSN
1872-5082
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
24-50
UT code for WoS article
000469389900002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85061501862