Le discours d’Éryximaque dans le Banquet de Platon (185e6-188e4) : problèmes et fonction philosophique d’un éloge médical = The speech of Eryximachus in Plato’s Symposium (185e6-188e4): Problems and philosophical function of a medical praise
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 1505
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- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.3917/dha.442.0087
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- Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne 44/2: Clisthene Workshop, I, Philosophy outside the walls
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- Presses Univ. de Franche-Comté
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- 9782848676395
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Interdisciplinary
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0
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- In Plato's Symposium, Eryximachus depicts er�s as paradoxically deprived of desire and pleasure. What does this portrait owe to the medical tradition the orator claims to draw on? Although the Hippocratic corpus never fails to recognize that desire and pleasure are essential to the nature of er�s, it provides the grounds for Eryximachus� implausible account: the ideal of health and good mixture (kr�sis) on which the doctor bases his praise. With regard to this ideal, neither pleasure nor desire are really praiseworthy. Therefore, in order to display the virtues of er�s, the doctor must distort its essence.
