The Love of Beauty for the Good Life-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Love of Beauty for the Good Life

Published:2018-08-01 Issue:3 Volume:2018 Page:93-121
ISSN:2196-5897
Container-title:Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy
language:en
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Author:

Keping Wang¹

Affiliation:

1. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , Institute of Philosophy , 5, Jianguo Mennei Dajie , , Beijing , China .

Abstract

Abstract Plato’s analogy of the ladder in the Symposium involves an inquiry into the love of beauty that pertains to a spiritual phenomenology of love. It is reconsidered in this discussion from both an aesthetic and teleological perspectives, and thus construed as a process of philosophical learning and virtuous cultivation. In the final analysis, this paper argues that it is intended to direct the love of beauty along with wisdom as virtue towards the Platonic ideal of human fulfillment and true happiness for the good life qua its ultimate telos. On this account, both the value of knowledge and the cultivation of personality are emphasized for inter-connected reasons, and meanwhile a pragmatic stance is proposed on the kinds-of-life option in the light of the kinds-of-wisdom stratification.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/yewph-2018-0008/pdf

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