Abstract

FIERRO, María Angélica. Amor y memoria: una estrategia platónica para la identidad y la inmortalidad. Circe clás. mod. [online]. 2021, vol.25, n.2, pp.60-83. ISSN 1851-1724.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.19137/circe-2021-250203.

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 ἐρωτικοὶ λόγοι in 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, ἀνάμνησις and a god-like immortality are available along with their sharing in the noetic activity of winged Eros.

Keywords : love; memory; identity; inmortality; Plato.

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