Description
Title: Symposium, The
Author: PLATO
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 27/02/2003
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerge 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.
ISBN: 9780140449273
Weight: 113g
Dimension: 197mm X 129mm
Pages: 144
Edition: 02