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 transcen In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their...
| Title | : | The Symposium |
| Author | : | Plato |
| Rating | : | |
| Genres | : | Philosophy |
| ISBN | : | Συμπόσιον ISBN |
| Edition Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 131 pages pages |
The Symposium Reviews
In this book Socrates argues that it is not always a good idea to have sex with boys and Aristophanes explains we were once co-joined creatures of three sexes - either male/female, male/male or female/female and were shaped like balls. How could anyone not find this a book worth readin...
The nature of eros is discussed in this famous dialogue by Plato. Symposium literally means "drinking party" in ancient Greek and this was one well-attended party with the likes of Alcibiades, Aristophanes, Agathon, Pausanias, Eryximachus and Socrates. A variety of views are put forwar...
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?It?s been less than three years that I?ve been Socrates? companion and made it my job to know exactly what he says and does each day. Before that, I simply drifted aimlessly. Of course, I used to think that what I was doing was important, but in fact I was the most worthle...
OPRAH: Good evening and welcome to What's the Most Spiritual Book of All Time? For people who missed last week's exciting semi-final round, The Sermon on the Mount beat The Bhagavad Gita 4-1 while Jonathan Livingston Seagull unexpectedly lost 3-2 to outsider The Symposium. Let's all we...
In one of those strange literary coincidences this short treatise on Love by Plato has been referenced this past week in my reading of Barth?s The Friday Book and Hilton Als?s White Girls. And for completely different reasons. I haven?t plunged head-first into White Girls just ye...
And Agathon said, It is probable, Socrates, that I knew nothing of what I had said. And yet spoke you beautifully, Agathon, he said. Back in the late 1990s a cowpunk band named The Meat Purveyors had a song, Why Does There Have To Be A Morning After? It detailed stumbling around i...
Rating: 2* of five, all for Aristophanes's way trippy remix of the Book of Genesis While perusing a review of Death in Venice (dreadful tale, yet another fag-must-die-rather-than-love piece of normative propaganda) written by my good friend Stephen, he expressed a desire to read The...
Once upon a time, millions of years ago, before humans were created God populated Earth with Unimen. The Unimen had only one eye, ear, and nostril, one hand, one leg, and no genitals. They reproduced asexually by growing a budding on their asymmetrical head, and when the budding develo...
I Never Met a Physician Who Wasn?t Descended from a Greek This might just be the work that put the "meta-" (at least the "metafiction") in "metaphysics". Plato?s name is attached to it, but its principal focus is Socrates. And guess what? Socrates doesn?t so much elaborate ...
I'm not a philosophy or ancient history student, I picked up Plato's "Symposium" to challenge myself and see if I could understand it. The "Symposium" is a gathering of Greek thinkers who sit around and give speeches about love. Phaedrus talks about the greatness of love and how th...
The life of the party 26 August 2015 You've really got to love the way Plato writes philosophy. Whereas everybody else simply writes what is in effect a work of non-fiction explaining some ideas, Plato seems to have the habit of inserting them into a story. Okay, he may not be the...
The Symposium holds the key to ancient psychology. One has but to compare post-Freudian psychology's understanding of the drives with Plato's discourse on human longing here in order to measure the distance between the ancient and modern orientations to reality. It is strange for us to...
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HEADLINE: This is priceless! When I was a young man, I and my friends certainly had some strange conversations, possibly aided by some substances of questionable legality in certain countries, but we never quite managed to attain the heights of strangeness reached at this banquet/dr...
Plato?s Symposium is one of the best loved classics from the ancient world, a work of consummate beauty as both philosophy and as literature, most appropriate since the topic of this dialogue is the nature of love and includes much philosophizing on beauty. In the spirit of fresh...
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Two points about this book that I didn't enjoy. Firstly the descriptions of intimate relations with persons of a very very young age which although not exclusive to the Greek people in those times were nevertheless disturbing to read about. Secondly, in the last pages he seems to be to...
Gozba, simpozion, ili simpozijum je bila jedna od najzanimljivijih ustanova starogr?kog dru?tva. Predstavljala je spoj ve?ernje zabave, pijanke i politi?ko-filozofskog foruma mu?karaca jer ?enama nije bio dozvoljen pristup. Naj?e??e je organizovana u ?ast pobede na nekom od a...
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Lectura #6 de la materia de Teoría del Conocimiento, "El Banquete". Citas y pequeños comentarios de uso personal: Sabios reunidos: Fedro, Agaton, Eriximaco, Pausanias, Aristodemo, Aristófanes *Tributo al amor. "El Amor es un gran dios, muy digno de ser honrado por los di...
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