Symposium
by Plato
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- ISBN 10
- 0941051560
- ISBN 13
- 9780941051569
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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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- Title
- Symposium
- Author
- Plato
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0941051560
- ISBN 13
- 9780941051569
- Publisher
- Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company
- Place of Publication
- Newburyport, Massachusetts
- This edition first published
- October 1997
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