Readings in the History of Æsthetics: An Open-Source Reader; Ver. 0.11
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Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry.[1] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. A summary article by Charles Griswold analyzing philosophy and poetry in Plato's Ion, Republic, Gorgias, and Phædrus.

Plato on Eros and Friendship.[2] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. A discussion of the art and psychology of love and friendship in Lysis and the Symposium by C.D.C. Reeve.

From the reading …

"This, my dear Socrates," said the stranger of Mantineia, "is that life above all others which man should live, in the contemplation of beauty absolute…"

Plato's Academy Roman Fresco adapted from University of St. Andrews

Notes

[1]

Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry

[2]

Plato on Eros and Friendship

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