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Symposium

Penguin Classics · 2003

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

Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication date: 27 Feb 2003
Language: English
Print length: 144

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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.