The Symposium by Plato
››› Download audio book. ‹‹‹ Original Title: The Symposium ISBN: 0140449272 ISBN13: 9780140449273 Autor: Plato/Christopher Gill (Translator/ Introduction/ Notes) Rating: 5 of 5 stars (4482) counts Original Format: Paperback, 131 pages Download Format: PDF, TXT, ePub, iBook. Published: February 27th 2003 / by Penguin Books / (first published -385) Language: English Genre(s): Nonfiction- 301 users Philosophy- 292 users Classics- 83 users Academic >School- 68 users History- 52 users Literature >Ancient- 50 users Literature- 43 users Academic >College- 39 users Cultural >Greece- 37 users History >Ancient History- 36 users
Description:
In 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, a motive for social action, and as a means of ethical education. Translated with an introduction and notes by Christopher Gill
About Author:
(Greek: ) (Arabic: ) Plato is a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Plato is one of the most important Western philosophers, exerting influence on virtually every figure in philosophy after him. His dialogue The Republic is known as the first comprehensive work on political philosophy. Plato also contributed foundationally to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. His student, Aristotle, is also an extremely influential philosopher and the tutor of Alexander the Great of Macedonia.
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