Plato and Frankfurt: Two Theories of the Relations Between Love and Living Well

This thesis provides a comparison of the ideas of caring and love as they appear in the works of Plato and Frankfurt. Frankfurt, a contemporary philosopher, maintains that an individual arrives at the most meaningful life through understanding what it is that heor she cares about the most. Interestingly, the instances of eros in Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus resonate with this idea. We see throughout these erotic dialogues similarities to Frankfurt's notions of care and love.Throughout his many works, Frankfurt provides us with several distinct features of care and love. This thesis offers an in depth discussion of each of these features andalso provides commentary from other contemporary philosophers who are familiar with Frankfurt's work. In addition, this thesis applies these features of care and love to Plato's erotic dialogues, and emphasizes areas in which Plato and Frankfurt agree and those inwhich they disagree. In essence, it becomes apparent that while there are many similarities between the ideas of these two prominent thinkers, Plato and Frankfurt do not agree about what constitutes the best human life. Plato maintains that the best life is onespent dedicated to philosophy and in pursuit of the 'good'. Frankfurt, on the other hand,imposes no such limitations on what we should consider the best life because people are likely to have different life experiences that lead them to care about and love different things. Instead he suggests that the best or most meaningful human life is one in which a person spends his or her life caring about the things he or she does, indeed, care aboutand loving those things he or she does, indeed, love.

Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesopicarum : Libri quinque

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The dialogues of Plato,

v. 1. Charmides. Lysis. Laches. Protagoras. Euthydemus. Cratylus. Phaedrus. Ion. Symposium.--v. 2. Meno. Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Appendix I: Lesser Hippias, Alcibiades I. Menexenus. Appendix II: Alcibiades II. Eryxias.--v. 3. Republic. Timaeus. Critias.--v. 4. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman. Philebus.--v. 5. Laws. Index to the writings of Plato.

The works of Plato /

v. 1. The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis -- v. 2. The Republic, Timaeus, and Critias -- v. 3. Meno, Euthydemus, The sophist, The statesman, Cratylus, Parmenides, and the Banquet -- v. 4. Philebus, Charmides, Laches, Menexenus, Hippias major, Hippias minor, Ion, First Alcibiades, Second Alcibiades, Theages, The rivals, Hipparchus. Minos, Clitopho, The epistles -- v. 5. The laws -- v. 6. The doubtful works ... with lives by Plato by Diogenes Laertius, Hesychius, and Olympiodorus; introductions to his doctrines, by Alcinous and Albinus; the notes of Thomas Gray, and a general index.

Phaedri Avgvsti liberti fabvlae Aesopiae.

Manuscript notes & clippings pasted in between cover-title & half-title page.

Tullius, sive De conjungenda latinitate cum Doctrina et Eloquentia, libri quadraginta /

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Platonis Opera quae feruntur omnia : ad codices denuo collatos /

Text in Greek; introd. and notes in Latin.

Phaedri Augusti liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum. cum appendice duplici /

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J. Phaedri Augusti Liberti fabulae veteres /

"J. Phaedri Augusti liberti Fabulae novae": p. [125]-163.--"Publii Syri et aliorum veterum Sententiae": p. [165]-178.

Phaedri Augusti liberti Fabulae Aesopiae /

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Fábulas ...

Edition varies: v. 2, "2. ed."

Phaedri Augusti Caesaris liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque ... in usum scholarum.

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Dialogi selecti;

v.1-2, 2d ed.

[Scriptores latini, jussu christianissimi regis ad usum serenissimi Delphini

Each set has also author entry.