Love and memory: a Platonic strategy for identity and immortality

Keywords:

love, memory, identity, inmortality, Plato

Abstract

Here, I address the link between ἔρως-μνήμη as a strategy to attain identity and immortality in two platonic dialogues. In the Symposium I show that love and memory help to: i) a faithful survival of the ἑρωτικοὶ λόγοιin the narrative weaving; ii) an aliud pro alio preservation of identity and immortality through the procreation of individuals of the same species, enduring productions in the cultural field and the body-mind elements of each individual. In the Phaedrus I tackle the interconnection “love-reminiscence-personal identity-immortality” in order to distinguish: i) those who, being unable to recall the eidetic realm, reproduce their psychosomatic configuration at the present time and similar psychosomatic configurations in their next lives; ii) the philosophers for whom, thanks to their love for the beautiful, ἀνάμνησιςand a god-like immortality are available along with their sharing in the noetic activity of winged Eros. 

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Author Biography

María Angélica Fierro, Conicet/ Universidad de Buenos Aires

Investigadora Independiente en el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET, Argentina) y docente de la cátedra “Historia de la Filosofía Antigua” en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA). “Permanent Fellow” del “Visiting Scholars Board”, en la Cátedra ARCHAI (Universidad de Brasilia). Miembro del Comité Académico de la Plato Journal de la IPS y miembro por América Latina del Board de la Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy desde 2020. Obtuvo el título de Doctor of Philosophy en la Universidad de Durham (Reino Unido) y realizó una Estancia Posdoctoral en el Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas de la UNAM (México). Entre sus publicaciones cabe mencionar: “Two conceptions of the body in the Phaedrus” en G. Boys-Stones, C. Gill & D. El Murr (eds.), The Platonic Art of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013; “The myth of the winged chariot: a vehicle for philosophical thinking” en G. Cornelli (ed.) Plato´s Style and Characters: between Literature and Philosophy, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2015; “Amor carnal, amor platónico”: Estudios de Filosofía 59, 2019. Su traducción comentada y anotada del Fedro para la Editorial Colihue es de próxima aparición.

Published

2021-11-17

How to Cite

Fierro, M. A. (2021). Love and memory: a Platonic strategy for identity and immortality. Circe De clásicos Y Modernos, 25(2), 61–83. Retrieved from https://cerac.unlpam.edu.ar/index.php/circe/article/view/6275