Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche

出版者:Pennsylvania State University Press

作者:Laurence D. Cooper

页数:376

出版时间:2008-01-01

价格:USD 55.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780271033303

图书标签:研究文献尼采哲学Rousseau政治哲學政治哲学platonicT

Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more--to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza's notion of conatus and Hobbes's identification of "a perpetual and restless desire of power after power." In this new book, Laurence Cooper focuses his attention on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for self-preservation. Cooper's overarching purpose is to illuminate the nature of this source of existential longing and discontent and its implications for political life. He concentrates especially on what these thinkers share in their understanding of this psychic power and how they view it ambivalently as the root not only of ambition, vigorous virtue, patriotism, and philosophy, but also of tyranny, imperialism, and varieties of fanaticism. But he is not neglectful of the differences among their interpretations of the phenomenon, either, and especially highlights these in the concluding chapter.

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没看尼采那部分。精读了卢梭，启发很大。 @2018-03-18 11:53:59

总算看完了，没看卢梭那部分。柏拉图-尼采两人作品之间的关系写得非常抽丝剥茧、深入浅出了，文字和结构也好。太建议感兴趣的人看看了！尼采和施特劳斯，两个在不同意义上最懂苏格拉底的人……（相比之下我写的就是一坨翔）

没看尼采那部分。精读了卢梭，启发很大。 @2018-03-18 11:53:59

没看尼采那部分。精读了卢梭，启发很大。

没看尼采那部分。精读了卢梭，启发很大。 @2018-03-18 11:53:59