Understanding Plato: 'The Symposium'

Understanding Plato: 'The Symposium'

by Hercules Bantas
Understanding Plato: 'The Symposium'

Understanding Plato: 'The Symposium'

by Hercules Bantas

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Overview

This guide examines Plato's discussion of love in The Symposium. It covers all the speeches, culminating in Alcibiades's drunken homage to Socrates, and explores the moral dimensions Plato attaches to love, as well as key concepts such as Common and Heavenly love.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940011163807
Publisher: Hercules Bantas
Publication date: 12/30/2010
Series: Understanding Philosophy , #2
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 180 KB

About the Author

Dr Hercules Bantas has been teaching and reading the human sciences for over a decade. It is his opinion that he is too often immersed in some weighty tome or other, the author of which always uses one thousand words where one hundred words would suffice. It was while juggling no less than three weighty tomes by the same author and trying to understand what the fellow was trying to say that the idea of The Reluctant Geek Guides was born. He is well aware that publishing clearly written and unambiguous guides to important ideas in the human sciences is frowned upon in some circles, but he's going to do it anyway. Despite his well documented grumpiness, Hercules claims to like people and can be contacted by email at reluctantgeek[at]tpg.com.au.

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