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Plato – Symposium (Full Text) | Genius. Symposium (Full Text) Plato. Track 1 on Symposium. This is one of Plato’s most known dialogues, dating back to around 380/385 BC. The text is concerned ...
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Download: A 116k text-only version is available for download. Symposium. By Plato. Written 360 B.C.E. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Persons of the Dialogue. APOLLODORUS, who repeats to his companion the dialogue which he had heard from Aristodemus, and had already once narrated to Glaucon. PHAEDRUS.
Page Number and Citation: 13. Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis: Unlock with LitCharts A +. These two rules must be combined (the one governing the love of boys and the one governing the love of wisdom and other kinds of virtue), to create the conditions in which it is right for a boy to gratify his lover.
The Symposium is a dialogue that was written by Plato around 370 BCE. In it, a man tells a story he heard from another man about a symposium (which translates to “drinks party”) at which Socrates, Aristophanes, and other eminent Athenians were invited to make speeches in praise of the god of Love. Plato’s further retelling of this ...
by Plato. Symposium by Plato Quotes and Analysis. If only there were a way to start a city or an army made up of lovers and the boys they love. Theirs would be the best possible system of society, for they would hold back from all that is shameful, and seek honor in each other’s eyes. Phaedrus, who speaks of courage, explains that people feel ...
Nov 7, 2008 · INTRODUCTION. Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself knew. For in philosophy as in prophecy glimpses of the future may often be conveyed in words which could hardly have been understood or interpreted at the ...
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Symposium is perhaps Plato’s masterpiece as a work of art, though other dialogues are of greater philosophical import. Its great range, from discussions of physical love to an almost mystical ...