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Brings the actual situation in the dialogue - Athens and its intellectuals engaged in spirited debate - alive. Equally alive is the discussions of ideas, which are brought to bear on contemporary experience and made to prove the perennial validity of Socratic wisdom, and its power to excite the mind. The main thesis - that in poetry and in love man is "beside himself," that is, divinely inspired - is discussed with reference to modern poets, novelists, and modern psychology.

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"Pieper's... book... is in every way beautiful: in format, in translation, in subject (Plato's Phaedrus), in its philisophical grace." - Christian Century; "Esscntial in philosophy sections of larger public, academic and special libraries." - Library Journal"

Enthusiasm And Divine Madness

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    A Paperback by Josef Pieper


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      Publisher: St Augustine's Press
      Publication Date: 03/05/2019
      ISBN13: 9781890318239, 978-1890318239
      ISBN10: 189031823X
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      Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Brings the actual situation in the dialogue - Athens and its intellectuals engaged in spirited debate - alive. Equally alive is the discussions of ideas, which are brought to bear on contemporary experience and made to prove the perennial validity of Socratic wisdom, and its power to excite the mind. The main thesis - that in poetry and in love man is "beside himself," that is, divinely inspired - is discussed with reference to modern poets, novelists, and modern psychology.

      Trade Review
      "Pieper's... book... is in every way beautiful: in format, in translation, in subject (Plato's Phaedrus), in its philisophical grace." - Christian Century; "Esscntial in philosophy sections of larger public, academic and special libraries." - Library Journal"

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