Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Plato; Gill, Christopher; Gill, Christopher; Gill, Christopher |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
| Date: | 4/29/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenianintellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversationemerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in societyand the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminatesin 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 thenature of love—as a response to beauty, a cosmic force, a motive forsocial action and as a means of ethical education.
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