Plato The Symposium

Author : Plato,Allan Bloom
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226042756

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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.

Author : Carrie Jenkins,Carla Nappi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 47,6 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.

Author : Pierre Destrée,Zina Giannopoulou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Frisbee Sheffield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Plato
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 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.

Author : Plato
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 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.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 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.

Author : Plato,K. J. Dover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 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.

Author : Thomas L. Cooksey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 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

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,9 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.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113460484

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The Symposium by Plato Pdf

Excerpt: ...sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is equal disgrace in being or not being deceived. For he who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's 'uses base' for the sake of money; but this is not honourable. And on the same principle he who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler. Thus noble in every case is the acceptance of another for the sake of virtue. This is that love which is the love of the heavenly godess, and is heavenly, and of great price to individuals and cities, making the lover and the beloved alike eager in the work of their own improvement. But all other loves are the offspring of the other, who is the common goddess. To you, Phaedrus, I offer this my contribution in praise of love, which is as good as I could make extempore. Pausanias came to a pause

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226776859

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Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium by Leo Strauss Pdf

The first major piece of unpublished work by Leo Strauss to appear in more than thirty years, Leo Strauss On Plato's "Symposium" offers the public the unprecedented experience of encountering this renowned scholar as his students did. Given as a course in autumn 1959 under the title "Plato's Political Philosophy," at the University of Chicago, these transcripts previously had circulated in samizdat fashion, passed down from one generation of students to the next. They show Strauss at his best, in his subtle and sometimes indirect style of analysis, which has attracted almost as much commentary as has the content of his thought. Strauss presents a coherent and complete interpretation of the Symposium, proceeding by a meticulous reading from beginning to end. Operating on the once common hypothesis that commentary is an excellent method of expounding the truth, Strauss sheds light not only on the meaning of the dialogue and its place in the Platonic corpus, but also on a host of important topics, including the nature of eros and its place in the overall economy of human life; the perennial quarrel between poetry and philosophy, and the relation of both to piety, politics, and morality; the character of Socrates and the questions of his trial; and many other matters. As provocative as they were a half century ago, these important lectures will be welcomed by students of classics, philosophy, politics, psychology, and political philosophy.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Love
ISBN : OCLC:1408542945

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The Symposium by Plato Pdf

Author : Plato
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,9 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Microbiology
ISBN : UOM:39015068264327

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Symposium by Anonim Pdf