Symposium (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Plato
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- 1857151941
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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.
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- Symposium (Everyman's Library Classics)
- Author
- Plato
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1857151941
- ISBN 13
- 9781857151947
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
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