Symposium

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Paperback, 96 pages

English language

Published Jan. 30, 2006 by Digireads.com.

ISBN:
978-1-4209-2679-8
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OCLC Number:
316340307

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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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Subjects

  • Philosophy
  • General