The status of sexuality in neoplatonism
Author
Zamora Calvo, José MaríaEntity
UAM. Departamento de FilosofíaPublisher
Digital Library of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University English ČeštinaDate
2020-01-01Citation
10.5817/GLB2020-2-12
Graeco-Latina Brunensia 25.2 (2020): 163-177
ISSN
1803-7402 (print); 2336-4424 (online)DOI
10.5817/GLB2020-2-12Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.5817/GLB2020-2-12Subjects
Mixed love; Neoplatonic ethic; Neoplatonic love; Neoplatonism; Sexuality; FilosofíaAbstract
The stereotype of “Platonic love” that developed during the Renaissance implies a type of relationship, between two people of the opposite gender, which does not involve sexual activity. A new examination of certain relevant texts by Neoplatonists such as Plotinus, Porphyry, Hierocles, Hermias, Proclus and Olympiodorus, written during the period of Late Antiquity, establish that the question of sexuality is present in the very architecture of their systems, thus maintaining a coherent approach over time. “Mixed love”, tending towards the sexual union that enables the conception of children, is morally good. Through an exegesis of the Symposium, Phaedrus and First Alcibiades, each of these Neoplatonic philosophers explores sexuality through the prisms of cosmology, ethics and political theory.
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