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Symposium

Penguin Classics · 2003

ISBN-10: 0140449272

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Plato's celebrated dialogue on the nature of love (eros) and the soul's ascent from physical beauty to Beauty itself.

Book details

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Publication date

27 Feb 2003

Edition

Penguin Classics ed.

Language

English

Print length

144

ISBN-10

0140449272

Item weight

113 lbs

Dimensions

12.8 × 0.9 × 19.7 in

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Description

The Symposium is one of Plato's most profound dialogues, set at a banquet where Socrates, Aristophanes, Alcibiades and others deliver speeches in praise of love. It culminates in Socrates' account of Diotima's teaching on the 'ladder of love,' leading the soul from desire for a single beautiful body to the contemplation of absolute Beauty. A foundational text in aesthetics and ethics.