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• Eros (Platonic Love)

  Plato's account of love, developed in the Symposium through Diotima's teaching (reported by Socrates). Its central original move is to redefine love away from the beautiful beloved (the object) toward the needy lover (the desirer): love is…

• Hippias Major (Greater Hippias) Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE (trans. Paul Woodruff, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue

• Symposium Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE (trans. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue

• The Fine (to kalon)

  To kalon is the broad Greek term of favorable evaluation — covering our beautiful, noble, admirable, fine, and excellent, with the aesthetic and the moral fused. The Hippias Major mounts an aporetic search for "the fine itself" (to kalon a…