A Scandal in Philosophy, or How to Make Philosophy Interesting

Abstract

Eros is mediator, trying to form finite and mortal in image of eternal ideas of the true, good, and beautiful. He is son of poverty and abundance, sharing nature of both parents. He pervades reality. He is principle of living evolution and a mighty dialectician. He is rugged and mean-looking but, like some figures of Silenos, he possesses inwardly golden images of gods. In Plato's Eros Socrates has become a universal myth. Four centuries later this Socratic clashed with Christian myth, and this gives rise to that profound and fascinating dialectic of faith and reason which has filled world ever since.