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Krása a nesmrteľnosť. O plodení u Platóna a Shakespeara (Beauty and Immortality. On Procreation in Plato and Shakespeare)

Authors :
Anton Vydra
Source :
Ostium, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2007)
Publication Year :
2007
Publisher :
Ostium, 2007.

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?

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