Symposium

Name: Symposium
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Plato
ISBN: 9781787365254

Author: Plato

Narrator: Oliver Adams

Unabridged: 3 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 01/08/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Movements

Synopsis

The Symposium by Plato is a philosophical dialogue that explores the various facets of love and its role in the attainment of higher truth. Through a series of speeches given by the characters, Plato's work provides an illuminating examination of eros and its potential as an agent for personal transformation. The text serves as an exploration into the nature of human emotion, offering insight into how one might pursue a meaningful life through cultivating intimate relationships with others. Read in English, unabridged.

About Plato

Plato (427-347 B.C.) was a classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer, and student of Socrates. Most of his works, which form some of the core foundations of Western philosophy, are written in the form of dialogues, in which Socrates often figures prominently. His best-known writings include the Republic, the Apology, the Symposium, Crito, and Statesman. Plato's work addresses such diverse themes as the nature of love, human knowledge and understanding, and the ideal form of government.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on May 01, 2024

Plato’s Symposium is one of the most loved classics from the ancient world, a work of consummate beauty as both philosophy and as literature, most appropriate since the topic of this dialogue is the nature of love and includes much philosophizing on beauty. In the spirit of freshness, I will focus o......more

Goodreads review by Manny on July 28, 2014

OPRAH: Good evening and welcome to What's the Most Spiritual Book of All Time? For people who missed last week's exciting semi-final round, The Sermon on the Mount beat The Bhagavad Gita 4-1 while Jonathan Livingston Seagull unexpectedly lost 3-2 to outsider The Symposium. Let's all welcome our fina......more

Goodreads review by calypso on April 27, 2024

plato really said “fuck socrates” and meant that literally......more