The Return of Aurora: On Love Pain and Knowledge
Keywords:
Eros, Pain, Love, Knowledge, sappho, Plato.
Abstract
This article proposes a study on love as an ambivalent experience that incorporates, along with the pleasant, essentially pain, and whose experience requires preparation and self-knowledge. To do this, I have taken as a starting point fragment 130 of sappho and the Platonic notion of soul of Phaedrus, to culminating in a reconsideration of pain as a necessary experience that allows the understanding of what sappho’s calls “bittersweet” love. The erotic suffering is considered in two ways: from the deep pain that leads to the abyss, to the pain that is in balance with “the sweetness” of love.Format
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Published
2016-10-20
How to Cite
Rojas Parma, L. (2016). The Return of Aurora: On Love Pain and Knowledge. Revista de Filosofía , 41(2), 227-245. https://doi.org/10.5209/RESF.53952
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