Loving and Dying is a reading of three dialogues (Phaedo, Symposium, and Phaedrus) which, using the figure of Socrates conversing in three different concrete situations, in complementary fashion address death, love, and reflection, as matters central to finding and understanding life's meaning and to sharing in the kind of immortality that is open to a human being. The intent of the work is simply to bring to attention how the dialogues register as drama and how they achieve this provocation of the reader to reflection on these central matters in human life.

About the Author
Richard Gotshalk is a retired Professor of Philosophy living in Montana.


Book Information
ISBN 9780761820727
Author Richard Gotshalk
Format Paperback
Page Count 308
Imprint University Press of America
Publisher University Press of America
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 142mm * 23mm