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Krása a nesmrteľnosť. O plodení u Platóna a Shakespeara (Beauty and Immortality. On Procreation in Plato and Shakespeare)
- Source :
- Ostium, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2007)
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Ostium, 2007.
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Abstract
- There are two moments referred in this essay: (1) A human being, which desires for immortality, desires for to be alive in his child or in an artwork. (2) Full human being’s desire is related for beauty. Is a beauty the same thing as immortality? How looks the relation between them? Shakespeare’s Sonnets begin with the challenge to his friend to procreate the offspring, because this is a way for immortality of the friend’s beauty. And if it is not a child, than verse refused him before the death or the Lethe. Similarly, Plato’s Socrates says in Symposium about his meeting with Diotima of Mantineia. She told him the oration on real Beauty without accidents. To see real Beauty means to be immortal, likewise the gods. Thus, could be a human being immortal?
- Subjects :
- Literature (General)
PN1-6790
Philosophy (General)
B1-5802
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- Czech, English, French, Slovak
- ISSN :
- 13366556
- Volume :
- 3
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Ostium
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.b588c66a6474ce896b52916eaca94dc
- Document Type :
- article