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 Socrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis By Mary P. Nichols * Publisher: Cambridge University Press * Number Of Pages: 238 * Publication Date: 2008-11-24 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521899737 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521899734 Product Description: In the modern philosophical tradition, Plato's Socrates has been viewed as an alienating influence on Western thought and life. In this book, Mary Nichols addresses Kierkegaard's and Nietzsche's criticism of Socrates and recovers the place of friendship and community in Socratic philosophizing. Her rich analysis of both dramatic details and philosophic themes in Plato's Symposium, Phaedras, and Lysis shows how love finds its fulfillment in the reciprocal relation of friends. Nichols shows how friends experience another as their own and themselves as belonging to another. Their experience, she argues, both sheds light on the nature of philosophy and serves as a standard for a political life that does justice to human freedom and community. Review "Mary Nichols puts together details of the Platonic dialogues in ways that demonstrate the resemblance between Socrates’ desire for a friend and the needs of political communities. She shows convincingly how modern philosophers see only the tendency of Socratic philosophy to dissolve community while underestimating its community-building aspect. Engaging, rich and lucid, her interpretations will have Read more...
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