A Experiência do Amor Platônico: Natureza e Alcance

Abstract

This work deals with the nature and scope of the experience of love in Plato's philosophy. If it is natural for love to be reminiscent and for reminiscence to make the path of the dialectic possible, the scope of this love appears as a problem. The work follows through a series of commentaries on Plato's dialogues that touch on important themes for the construction of the exposition that deals first with the presence of reminiscence in the experience of love and then deals with its scope. The commentaries take place in the sequence Meno-Phaedo-Symposium-Phaedrus with the contribution of famous classical and contemporary authors, so that the exposition is realized synergistically and progressively. There is also - as a subtopic of the commentary to the Menon - the presence of an exposition of the characteristics of the orphic tradition which dialog with the content of this work in order to contextualize religiously and culturally the origin of the doctrine decisive for the realization of the erotic nature.