- Editorial:
- PENGUIN BOOKS (UK)
- Año de edición:
- 2003
- Materia
- Philosophy/religion
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-044927-3
- Encuadernación:
- paperback
SYMPOSIUM ( 2003 ) +
PLATO
'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