The Symposium Paperback / softback
by Plato
Paperback / softback
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'Perhaps the most entertaining work of philosophy ever written ... the first really systematic and serious attempt to say what love is' John Armstrong, GuardianIn the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire.
From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts.
The discussion culminates in a radical challenge to conventional views by Plato's mentor, Socrates, who advocates transcendence through spiritual love.
The Symposium is a deft interweaving of different viewpoints and ideas about the nature of love - as a response to beauty, a cosmic force or a path to goodness. Translated with an Introduction by Christopher Gill
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- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:27/02/2003
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:27/02/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780140449273