PENGUIN CLASSICS : THE SYMPOSIUM PB B FORMAT

Τιμή Bestseller: €11,99

Συγγραφέας: Plato-Christopher Gill-Christopher Gill

Εκδότης: PENGUIN

Κατηγορία: ΚΟΣΜΟΣ, ΙΔΕΕΣ & ΤΕΧΝΗ

ISBN: 9780140449273

Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 26/02/2003

Αγορά

26/02

Περιγραφή

"'Perhaps the most entertaining work of philosophy ever written ... the first really systematic and serious attempt to say what love is' John Armstrong, Guardian 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 or a path to goodness. Translated with an Introduction by Christopher Gill"