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Titre: The Symposium
Condition: Neuf
Auteur: Plato
Traducteur: Christopher Gill
Contributeur: Christopher Gill (Introduction by), Christopher Gill (Translated by), Christopher Gill (Notes by)
Format: Poche
ISBN-10: 0140449272
EAN: 9780140449273
ISBN: 9780140449273
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Date de publication: 2003-02-27
Description:

'Perhaps the most entertaining work of philosophy ever written ... the first really systematic and serious attempt to say what love is' John Armstrong, Guardian

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 or a path to goodness.

Translated with an Introduction by Christopher Gill

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