Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good

This book tells a compelling story about love, friendship, and the Divine that took over a thousand years to unfold. It argues that mind and feeling are intrinsically connected in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus; that Aristotle developed his theology and physics primarily from Plato''s Symposium (from the "Greater" and "Lesser Mysteries" of Diotima-Socrates'' speech); and that the Be...