Symposium: Translated by Alexander Nehamas
by PLATO
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0872200760
- ISBN 13
- 9780872200760
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Endless Shores Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85148
- Title
- Symposium
- Author
- PLATO
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0872200760
- ISBN 13
- 9780872200760
- Publisher
- Hackett Pub Co Inc
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, Indiana, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1989
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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