Titlebook: Socrates and Diotima; Sexuality, Religion, Andrea Nye Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015 antiquity.cultur

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Religion without God. There was something missing from his account, he says, something that has to be put “along side” works of “intelligence,” something that has to be there in the beginning before any divine Craftsman could begin his work. He will have to start again, he announces, and try to explain where the physic

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The Problem of Evilthe same time perfectly good, why does evil exist in the world at all, let alone personified as demonic beings that can challenge even God? If the animal body is the site of sin, why was the body created? Why not soul creatures free of bodily urges? If the taint is not in the body but in human will,

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The Defeat of Deathed of materialists agrees that the dead rise up in the form of plants and animals that live on plants. The most vehement of atheists agrees with Paul in . 15 that seeds buried in the ground take on new bodies as shafts of wheat. Paul went on to interpret these teachings at the heart of the mysteries

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2945-6991 ial in Greek culture. Drawing on Socrates‘ Symposium , Nye advances this notion by not only exploring the original religious meaning of Diotima‘s teaching but also how that meaning has been lost throughout time.978-1-137-51404-2Series ISSN 2945-6991 Series E-ISSN 2945-7009

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The Spirit at the Center of the Worldf primary elements.. As for what sets the process in motion, he identified two primal forces. Strife that mixes up elements and drives them apart, and Love, or φιλóτης, that brings elements together in new combinations.

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