Nature, Woman and the Art of Politics

Crawford, M. B. (2000b) “Plutarch on Philosophic Eros and Married Life." In Nature, Woman and the Art of Politics. Ed. E. A. Velásquez, 115-36. Lanham, MD.

Excerpt:
Montaigne holds out the possibility of a full-fledged friendship between men and women that would engage both the body and the soul, only to dismiss it on the authority of the ancients. Yet the “common agreement of the ancient schools” Montaigne refers to is not quite complete. Though he was one of modernity’s most devoted students of Plutarch, Montaigne seems to have overlooked Plutarch’s work Dialogue on Love.

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