An Analysis Of Plato S Symposium

Author : Richard Ellis,Simon Ravenscroft
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 104 pages
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Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351351102

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An Analysis of Plato's Symposium by Richard Ellis,Simon Ravenscroft Pdf

Plato’s Symposium, composed in the early fourth century BC, demonstrates how powerful the skills of reasoning and evaluation can be. Known to philosophers for its seminal discussion of the relationship of love to knowledge, it is also a classic text for demonstrating the two critical thinking skills that define Plato’s whole body of work. Plato’s philosophical technique of dialogue is the perfect frame for producing arguments and presenting a persuasive case for a given point of view, and at the same time judging the strength of arguments, their relevance and their acceptability. Staging a fictional debate between characters (wealthy Athenians at a dinner party) who must respond in turn to each others’ arguments and points of view means that, at every stage, Plato evaluates the previous argument, assesses its strength and relevance, and then proceeds (through the next character) to reason out a new argument in response. Exerting unparalleled influence on the techniques of philosophical thought, Plato’s use of dialogue is a supreme example of these two crucial critical thinking skills.

Author : Frisbee Sheffield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191536823

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Plato's Symposium by Frisbee Sheffield Pdf

Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted. For Plato, analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances of leading a worthwhile and happy life. In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection, this book explores Plato's ethics of desire.

Author : Pierre Destrée,Zina Giannopoulou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107525691

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Plato's Symposium by Pierre Destrée,Zina Giannopoulou Pdf

Plato's Symposium is an exceptionally multi-layered dialogue. At once a historical document, a philosophical drama that enacts abstract ideas in an often light-hearted way, and a literary masterpiece, it has exerted an influence that goes well beyond the confines of philosophy. The essays in this volume, by leading scholars, offer detailed analyses of all parts of the work, focusing on the central and much-debated theme of erōs or 'human desire' - which can refer both to physical desire or desire for happiness. They reveal thematic continuities between the prologue and the various speeches as well as between the speeches themselves, and present a rich collection of contrasting yet complementary readings of Diotima's speech. The volume will be invaluable for classicists and philosophers alike, and for all who are interested in one of Plato's most fascinating and challenging dialogues.

Author : James H. Lesher,Debra Nails,Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015068766792

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Plato's Symposium by James H. Lesher,Debra Nails,Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield Pdf

In his Symposium, Plato crafted speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. But questions remain concerning the meaning of specific features, the significance of the dialogue as a whole, and the character of its influence. Here, an international team of scholars addresses such questions.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840590

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Plato on Love by Plato Pdf

This collection features Plato's writings on sex and love in the preeminent translations of Stanley Lombardo, Paul Woodruff and Alexander Nehamas, D. S. Hutchinson, and C. D. C. Reeve. Reeve's Introduction provides a wealth of historical information about Plato and Socrates, and the sexual norms of classical Athens. His introductory essay looks closely at the dialogues themselves and includes the following sections: Socrates and the Art of Love; Socrates and Athenian Paiderastia; Loving Socrates; Love and the Ascent to the Beautiful; The Art and Psychology of Love Explained; and Writing about Love.

Author : Richard Ellis,Simon Ravenscroft
Publisher : Macat Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Evaluation
ISBN : 1912127660

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Symposium by Richard Ellis,Simon Ravenscroft Pdf

Plato's Symposium, composed in the early fourth century BC, demonstrates how powerful the skills of reasoning and evaluation can be. Known to philosophers for its seminal discussion of the relationship of love to knowledge, it is also a classic text for demonstrating the two critical thinking skills that define Plato's whole body of work. Plato's philosophical technique of dialogue is the perfect frame for producing arguments and presenting a persuasive case for a given point of view, and at the same time judging the strength of arguments, their relevance and their acceptability. Staging a fictional debate between characters (wealthy Athenians at a dinner party) who must respond in turn to each others' arguments and points of view means that, at every stage, Plato evaluates the previous argument, assesses its strength and relevance, and then proceeds (through the next character) to reason out a new argument in response. Exerting unparalleled influence on the techniques of philosophical thought, Plato's use of dialogue is a supreme example of these two crucial critical thinking skills.

Author : Richard L. Hunter
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195160802

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Plato's Symposium by Richard L. Hunter Pdf

The Symposium is Plato's best-known work. It is now a seminal text, not just for the representation of Socrates, Plato's ontology, and for the history of ideas about desire, but for Athenian social and political history, the history of rhetoric, and for the image of the intellectual in Western tradition. It is also a high point in classical literary art. This book pays close attention to parody of modes of style and thought as well as to the provocative construction of the whole. It will introduce readers to the work itself by contextualizing it in Greek literature in general and the Platonic.

Author : Mary P. Nichols
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780521899734

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Socrates on Friendship and Community by Mary P. Nichols Pdf

In Socrates on Friendship and Community, Mary P. Nichols addresses Kierkegaard's and Nietzsche's criticism of Socrates and recovers the place of friendship and community in Socratic philosophizing. This approach stands in contrast to the modern philosophical tradition, in which Plato's Socrates has been viewed as an alienating influence on Western thought and life. Nichols' rich analysis of both dramatic details and philosophic themes in Plato's Symposium, Phaedras, and Lysis shows how love finds its fulfilment in the reciprocal relation of friends. Nichols also shows how friends experience another as their own and themselves as belonging to another. Their experience, she argues, both sheds light on the nature of philosophy and serves as a standard for a political life that does justice to human freedom and community.

Author : Kevin Corrigan,Elena Glazov-Corrigan
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271075587

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Plato's Dialectic at Play by Kevin Corrigan,Elena Glazov-Corrigan Pdf

The Symposium is one of Plato’s most accessible dialogues, an engrossing historical document as well as an entertaining literary masterpiece. By uncovering the structural design of the dialogue, Plato’s Dialectic at Play aims at revealing a Plato for whom the dialogical form was not merely ornamentation or philosophical methodology but the essence of philosophical exploration. His dialectic is not only argument; it is also play. Careful analysis of each layer of the text leads cumulatively to a picture of the dialogue’s underlying structure, related to both argument and myth, and shows that a dynamic link exists between Diotima’s higher mysteries and the organization of the dialogue as a whole. On this basis the authors argue that the Symposium, with its positive theory of art contained in the ascent to the Beautiful, may be viewed as a companion piece to the Republic, with its negative critique of the role of art in the context of the Good. Following Nietzsche’s suggestion and applying criteria developed by Mikhail Bakhtin, they further argue for seeing the Symposium as the first novel. The book concludes with a comprehensive reevaluation of the significance of the Symposium and its place in Plato’s thought generally, touching on major issues in Platonic scholarship: the nature of art, the body-soul connection, the problem of identity, the relationship between mythos and logos, Platonic love, and the question of authorial writing and the vanishing signature of the absent Plato himself.

Author : Richard Ellis,Simon Ravenscroft
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351352895

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An Analysis of Plato's Symposium by Richard Ellis,Simon Ravenscroft Pdf

Plato’s Symposium, composed in the early fourth century BC, demonstrates how powerful the skills of reasoning and evaluation can be. Known to philosophers for its seminal discussion of the relationship of love to knowledge, it is also a classic text for demonstrating the two critical thinking skills that define Plato’s whole body of work. Plato’s philosophical technique of dialogue is the perfect frame for producing arguments and presenting a persuasive case for a given point of view, and at the same time judging the strength of arguments, their relevance and their acceptability. Staging a fictional debate between characters (wealthy Athenians at a dinner party) who must respond in turn to each others’ arguments and points of view means that, at every stage, Plato evaluates the previous argument, assesses its strength and relevance, and then proceeds (through the next character) to reason out a new argument in response. Exerting unparalleled influence on the techniques of philosophical thought, Plato’s use of dialogue is a supreme example of these two crucial critical thinking skills.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781504052207

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Symposium by Plato Pdf

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts by one of history’s greatest philosophers. In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society, and basic human instincts. The debate precedes one great after another: Agathon, Aristodemus, Eryximachus, Pausanias, Aristophanes, and Socrates—all describing love in many possible permutations and combinations. The dialogue 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.

Author : Thomas L. Cooksey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441157348

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Plato's 'Symposium' by Thomas L. Cooksey Pdf

In many regards the dialectical counterpart of the Republic, the Symposium is one of the richest and most influential of the Platonic dialogues, resonating not only with Western philosophy, but also with literature art and theology. While Plato ostensibly dramatizes a humorous account of a drinking party, he presents a profoundly serious explication of Eros that challenges the limits of reason, the nature of gender, identity and narrative form. Plato's Symposium: A Reader's Guide presents a concise and accessible introduction to the text, offering invaluable guidance on: - Historical, literary and philosophical context - Key themes - Reading the text - Reception and influence - Further reading

Author : Stanley Rosen
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : UOM:39015000236698

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Plato's Symposium by Stanley Rosen Pdf

Author : Stanley Rosen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300037627

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Plato's Symposium by Stanley Rosen Pdf

This is the first full-length study of the Symposium to be published in English, and one of the first English works on Plato to take its bearings by the dramatic form of the Platonic dialogue, a thesis that was regarded as heterodox at the time but which today is widely accepted by scholars of the most diverse standpoint. Rosen was also one of the first to study in detail the philosophical significance of the phenomenon of concrete human sexuality, as it is presented by Plato in the diverse characters of the main speakers in the dialogue. His analysis of the theoretical significance of pederasty in the dialogue was highly controversial at the time, but is today accepted as central to Plato's dramatic phenomenology of human existence.

Author : Gary Alan Scott,William A. Welton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791477663

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Erotic Wisdom by Gary Alan Scott,William A. Welton Pdf

Erotic Wisdom provides a careful reading of one of Plato's most beloved dialogues, the Symposium, which explores the nature and scope of human desire (erôs). Gary Alan Scott and William A. Welton engage all of the dialogue's major themes, devoting special attention to illuminating Plato's conception of philosophy. In the Symposium, Plato situates philosophy in an intermediate (metaxu) position—between need and resource, ignorance and knowledge—showing how the very lack of what one desires can become a guiding form of contact with the objects of human desire. The authors examine the concept of intermediacy in relation both to Platonic metaphysics and to Plato's moral psychology, arguing that philosophy, for Plato, is properly understood as a kind of "being in-between," as the love of wisdom (philosophia) rather than the possession of it.