Symposium
by Plato
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0872200779
- ISBN 13
- 9780872200777
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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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- Seller
- Bonita (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 0872200779.G
- Title
- Symposium
- Author
- Plato
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0872200779
- ISBN 13
- 9780872200777
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- This edition first published
- 1989