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PLATO and the Question of D REW A. H Y L A N D Beauty PLATO and the Question of Beauty Studies in Continental Thought John Sallis, editor Consulting Editors Robert Bernasconi Rudolph Bernet John D. Caputo David Carr Edward S. Casey Hubert Dreyfus Don Ihde David Farrell Krell Lenore Langsdorf Alphonso Lingis William L. McBride J. N. Mohanty Mary Rawlinson Tom Rockmore Calvin O. Schrag †Reiner Schürmann Charles E. Scott Thomas Sheehan Robert Sokolowski Bruce W. Wilshire David Wood PLATO and the Question of Beauty D R E W A . H Y L A N D Indiana University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail iuporder@indiana.edu ∫ 2008 by Drew A. Hyland All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials , ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hyland, Drew A. Plato and the question of beauty / Drew A. Hyland. p. cm. — (Studies in continental thought) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-253-35138-8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21977-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Plato. 2. Aesthetics. 3. Plato. Phaedrus. I. Title. B398.A4H95 2008 111%.85092—dc22 2007045005 1 2 3 4 5 13 12 11 10 09 08 A book on beauty, one that I would write, can have only one dedication: For Anne Walk in beauty. Navajo farewell Beauty is momentary in the mind— The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. Wallace Stevens, ‘‘Peter Quince at the Clavier’’ But it’s a beautiful thing to strive after the beautiful, And to su√er whatever we have to su√er along the way. Plato, Phaedrus, 274b ...