Éros as an ambivalent power in ancient Greek culture
The aim of this article is to approach the Greek conception of éros, mainly in the field of mythology and literature, in order to provide elements to understand its semantic configuration in ancient culture as force, energy or intense and indeterminate power. We will try to show that the term éros r...
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Escuela de Filosofía. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2022
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| Sumario: | The aim of this article is to approach the Greek conception of éros, mainly in the field of mythology and literature, in order to provide elements to understand its semantic configuration in ancient culture as force, energy or intense and indeterminate power. We will try to show that the term éros reveals a homonymy that, using Aristotelian terminology, we can call "pròs hén" (Metaphysics IV,2), that is, that its multiple uses and senses that this journey will allow us to discover -as primordial power, divinity, love, desire, desire for someone, desire for things-, converge in an underlying sense: éros is a power of ambivalent character that can propitiate generation or destruction, pleasure and pain, harmony or imbalance. |
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