Symposium
by Plato
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- Condition
- Used - 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
- More Than Words Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WAL-L-0e-002167
- Title
- Symposium
- Author
- Plato
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0872200760
- ISBN 13
- 9780872200760
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, Indiana, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1989-05
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