SYMPOSIUM
by Plato
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 067960197X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679601975
- Seller
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Pomona, New York, United States
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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
- Rare Book Cellar (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 175128
- Title
- SYMPOSIUM
- Author
- Plato
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Modern Library Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 067960197X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679601975
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 067960197X
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