Pavedināšana Ar Platonu - Platona Vārds Kā Homoseksuāla Autora Ierocis Cīņā Ar Bībelē Balstīto Morāli 20. Un 21. Gadsimta Rietumu Literatūrā: Seduction by Plato - Plato's name as a weapon in a homosexual author's battle with the biblical morals of society in the Western literature of the twentieth andtwenty-first centuries.
The current article focuses on development of the tradition of using Plato's works in apologetics of homosexuality in dialogue with Christianity between the end of the nineteenth century and today. During the considered period, the authors (litterateurs, literature researchers - Symonds, J. A.,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Latvian |
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LU Akadēmiskais apgāds
2019
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Cel̜š
Year: 2019, Issue: 70, Pages: 6-25 |
| Further subjects: | B
Twenty-first century
B Phaedrus B Nineteenth Century B Apologetics B Conduct of life B PLATONISTS |
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| Summary: | The current article focuses on development of the tradition of using Plato's works in apologetics of homosexuality in dialogue with Christianity between the end of the nineteenth century and today. During the considered period, the authors (litterateurs, literature researchers - Symonds, J. A., Zweig. S, Forster, E. M., Gide, A., Mann, T., Renault, M.) have used ancient Greek culture and Plato's works as an argument in confronting Christian morality. The article reveals how and why Plato has seemed to be an appropriate instrument for these authors and the presentation of this 'Platonism' in their texts as a way out of moral and legal constraints created by the biblical morals of society. The article's aim is to trace a tradition - the shared references rooted in ancient Greek culture and Plato's dialogues, particularly Phaedrus and Symposium, uniting writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. These shared references are the argument that allows one to speak of a shared 'culture', 'vocabulary' spoken and understood by the author and an educated and receptive reader. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cel̜š
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.22364/cl.70.01 |