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Symposium / Plato.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plato, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Socrates.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (62 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2018.
- Summary:
- A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts by one of history's greatest philosophers. In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society, and basic human instincts. The debate precedes one great after another: Agathon, Aristodemus, Eryximachus, Pausanias, Aristophanes, and Socrates-all describing love in many possible permutations and combinations. The dialogue 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Symposium
- Introduction
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 385 BC.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781504052207
- 150405220X
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