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Plato and the question of beauty / Drew A. Hyland

by Drew Hyland

This study examines the concept of beauty within the Hippias Major, Symposium, and Phaedrus. It explores how the resistance of beauty to formal definition informs its relationship with love, memory, and the practice of philosophy.

Accession 3176 ISBN 9780253351388 Publisher Indiana University Press
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