Alexander Nehamas (born 1946) is Professor of philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. He works on Greek philosophy, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Foucault, and literary theory. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967, and completed his doctorate on Predication in Plato's Phaedo under the direction of Gregory Vlastos at Princeton in 1971. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania before joining the Princeton faculty in 1990.
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"Only in the Contemplation of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living" (Plato, Syposium 211d)
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"Only in the Contemplation of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living" (Plato, Symposium 211d)
"Only in the Contemplation of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living"
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