{"id":3606,"date":"2018-12-05T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2018-11-29T19:48:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:48:24","slug":"veritas-series-love-friendship-beauty-and-the-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk\/2018\/12\/05\/veritas-series-love-friendship-beauty-and-the-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Veritas<\/em> Series: Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

Highlighting publications in the Veritas<\/a> series from the last year:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good
\nPlato, Aristotle, and the Later Tradition<\/strong><\/span>
\nBy Kevin Corrigan<\/p>\n

Purchase:
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Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book tells a compelling story about love, friendship, and the Divine that took over a thousand years to unfold. It argues that mind and feeling are intrinsically connected in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus; that Aristotle developed his theology and physics primarily from Plato\u2019s Symposium (from the \u201cGreater\u201d and \u201cLesser Mysteries\u201d of Diotima-Socrates\u2019 speech); and that the Beautiful and the Good are not coincident classes, but irreducible Forms, and the loving ascent of the Symposium must be interpreted in the light of the Republic, as the later tradition up to Ficino saw. Against the view that Platonism is an escape from the ambiguities of ordinary experience or opposed to loving individuals for their own sakes, this book argues that Plato dramatizes the ambiguities of ordinary experience, confronts the possibility of failure, and bequeaths erotic models for the loving of individuals to later thought. Finally, it examines the Platonic-Aristotelian heritage on the Divine to discover whether God can love us back, and situates the dramatic development of this legacy in Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, and Dionysius the Areopagite.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLove, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good<\/em> debunks the academic myth which has encased ancient philosophy and its later pagan and Christian permutations in a curio box, available for a sterile analytical examination, but devoid of relevance to the nitty-gritty psychology of our daily life. It takes a lifetime of experience and expertise to reexamine the relationship between being and thinking in the most Cartesian of ways. Corrigan does just this with reason and passion.\u201d \u2014Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Florida State University<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this small volume, Corrigan shows convincingly that . . . Plato and his successors held that such experiences as love, pleasure, and desire are entirely compatible with divine transcendence, without which there can be no real immanence and no real love of individuals without the vertical dimension that makes this possible.\u201d \u2014John D. Turner, University of Nebraska-Lincoln<\/p>\n

\u201cKevin Corrigan, noted authority on both Plato himself and the later Platonist tradition, particularly Plotinus, has here produced a remarkable study of the role of love in both stages of that tradition.\u201d \u2014John Dillon, Trinity College Dublin<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this multifaceted gem of a book, Corrigan expertly guides us to understand more deeply and anew the perennial themes of love and friendship both in Platonism and in our own lives. . . . This is a valuable book and a model of concision.\u201d \u2014Arthur Versluis, author of Platonic Mysticism<\/p>\n

\u201c[A]n arresting revisionist essay. . . . This book should be required reading for students of ancient philosophy and early Christian theology.\u201d \u2014John Peter Kenney, Saint Michael\u2019s College<\/p>\n

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