The Language Of Love

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 61 (3):276-290 (1980)
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Abstract

A brief philological look at a key argument in Plato’s “Lysis” reveals Plato’s philosophical interpretation of generic love, or ‘philia’, to be an asymmetrical form of possessive desire, where the interests of the self predominate.

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10.1111/j.1468-0114.1980.tb00019.x

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