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Rhoades, James M. Eros, Wisdom, and Silence: Plato's Erotic Dialogues.(Book Review)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20050601
Author:Lindenmuth, Donald C.

RHOADES, James M. Eros, Wisdom, and Silence: Plato's Erotic Dialogues. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xiv + 573 pp. Cloth, $49.95--This book, the first of a projected three-volume work on Plato, contains three related inquiries dealing with hermeneutics, an interpretation of the Seventh Letter, and an analysis of Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus. A second volume on the Republic and a third on the Laws are also planned.

Dr. Rhoades explains in his opening chapter that "Plato's constant dramatic refrain is that the healing of a tyrannical eros is necessary to ...

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