89 pages
Italian language
Published April 9, 1982 by La Nuova Italia.
Plato: Simposio (Italian language, 1982, La Nuova Italia)
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- 978-88-221-0001-6
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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, a motive for social action, and as a means of ethical education.
Subjects
- Socrates
- Love -- Early works to 1800