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Plato's Symposium

Plato,Allan Bloom
Plato s Symposium Book PDF

Author : Plato,Allan Bloom
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226042756

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Plato's Symposium by Plato,Allan Bloom Pdf

Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating commentaries on it: Benardete's "On Plato's Symposium" and Allan Bloom's provocative essay, "The Ladder of Love." In the Symposium, Plato recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include the poet Aristophanes, the drunken Alcibiades, and, of course, the wise Socrates. The revelers give their views on the timeless topics of love and desire, all the while addressing many of the major themes of Platonic philosophy: the relationship of philosophy and poetry, the good, and the beautiful.

Plato's Symposium

Frisbee Sheffield
Plato s Symposium Book PDF

Author : Frisbee Sheffield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 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.

Plato's Symposium

Pierre Destrée,Zina Giannopoulou
Plato s Symposium Book PDF

Author : Pierre Destrée,Zina Giannopoulou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 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.

The Last Days of Socrates

Plato
The Last Days of Socrates Book PDF

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1716633915

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The Last Days of Socrates by Plato Pdf

The Last Days of Socrates presents Plato's dialogues Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo.

The Symposium

Plato
The Symposium Book PDF

Author : Plato
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141912028

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The Symposium by Plato Pdf

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Plato's retelling of the discourses between Socrates and his friends on such subjects as love and desire, truth and illusion, spiritual transcendence and the qualities of a good ruler, profoundly affected the ways in which we view human relationships, society and leadership - and shaped the whole tradition of Western philosophy.

Symposium

Plato
Symposium Book PDF

Author : Plato
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191605499

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Symposium by Plato Pdf

In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness. And then into the party bursts the drunken Alcibiades, the most popular and notorious Athenian of the time, who insists on praising Socrates himself rather than love, and gives us a brilliant sketch of this enigmatic character. The power, humour, and pathos of Plato's creation engages the reader on every page. This new translation is complemented by full explanatory notes and an illuminating introduction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Plato's Symposium

James H. Lesher,Debra Nails,Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield
Plato s Symposium Book PDF

Author : James H. Lesher,Debra Nails,Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,7 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.

Lakoma

Plato,K. J. Dover
Lakoma Book PDF

Author : Plato,K. J. Dover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1980-02-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521295238

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Lakoma by Plato,K. J. Dover Pdf

Plato's dialogue the Symposium with introduction and commentary.

Plato's Symposium

Richard L. Hunter
Plato s Symposium Book PDF

Author : Richard L. Hunter
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,7 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.

Uninvited

Carrie Jenkins,Carla Nappi
Uninvited Book PDF

Author : Carrie Jenkins,Carla Nappi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780228002703

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Uninvited by Carrie Jenkins,Carla Nappi Pdf

Plato's Symposium depicts a group of men giving a series of speeches about the nature of love, with themes ranging from religion and metaphysics to medicine and pregnancy. The lone woman in the room, a "flute girl," is sent away as the discussion turns to serious matters; at the same time, the wisest of the men attributes his theories to a woman, the possibly fictional Diotima. Despite their absence from this important intellectual exchange, women are part of Symposium. What can contemporary feminist readers do with this troubling yet immeasurably influential work? In Uninvited historian Carla Nappi and philosopher Carrie Jenkins talk back to Plato in poetry, inspired by the voices of women characters who were not previously permitted to speak. Images and ideas from Symposium are refracted through multiple lenses to reveal a tumult of mystical, intellectual, pedagogical, and sexual ideologies. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrific, these poems dance within and between the lines of Symposium, carving space for new kinds of conversations about love, with themes ranging from gender and voice to power and violence. Designed to be read with or without prior knowledge of Plato, this book invites the uninvited to join a strange, amorphous, and unending conversation on the nature of love and desire - and on the possibilities intellectual and creative activity can offer.

Plato's 'Symposium'

Thomas L. Cooksey
Plato s Symposium Book PDF

Author : Thomas L. Cooksey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 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

Plato: The Symposium

Frisbee C. C. Sheffield
Plato The Symposium Book PDF

Author : Frisbee C. C. Sheffield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139469908

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Plato: The Symposium by Frisbee C. C. Sheffield Pdf

Plato's Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended by some of the leading intellectuals of the day, including Aristophanes, the comic dramatist, Socrates, Plato's mentor, and Alcibiades, the brilliant but (eventually) treacherous politician. Each guest gives a speech in praise of the benefits of desire and its role in the good and happy human life. At the core of the work stands Socrates' praise of philosophical desire, and an argument for the superiority of the philosophical life as the best route to happiness. This edition provides an accessible and engaging new translation by M. C. Howatson, and a substantial introduction, by Frisbee C. C. Sheffield, which guides the reader through the various parts of the dialogue and reflects on its central arguments. A chronology and detailed notes on the participants help to set this enduring work in context.

Plato's Symposium

Plato
Plato s Symposium Book PDF

Author : Plato
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226208152

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Plato's Symposium by Plato Pdf

Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating commentaries on it: Benardete's "On Plato's Symposium" and Allan Bloom's provocative essay, "The Ladder of Love." In the Symposium, Plato recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include the poet Aristophanes, the drunken Alcibiades, and, of course, the wise Socrates. The revelers give their views on the timeless topics of love and desire, all the while addressing many of the major themes of Platonic philosophy: the relationship of philosophy and poetry, the good, and the beautiful.

Plato on Love

Plato
Plato on Love Book PDF

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,7 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.

Symposium or Drinking Party

Plato
Symposium or Drinking Party Book PDF

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781585108435

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Symposium or Drinking Party by Plato Pdf

This new edition of Plato's Symposium provides beginning readers and scholars alike with a solid, reliable translation that is both faithful to the original text and accessible to contemporary readers. In addition, the volume offers a number of aids to help the reader make his or her way through this remarkable work: A concise introduction sets the scene, conveys the tenor of the dialogue, and introduces the reader to the main characters with a gloss on their backgrounds and a comment on their roles in the dialogue. It also provides a list of basic points for readers to keep in mind as they read the work. A thought-provoking interpretive essay offers reflections on the themes of the dialogue, focusing especially on the dialogue as drama. A select bibliography points to works, both classic and contemporary, that are especially relevant to readers of the Symposium. Two appendices consist of a line drawing that depicts the spacial layout and positioning of characters in the Symposium, and a chart that shows the relation of the first six speeches to number, age, parentage and the function of Eros.