Symposium and Phaedrus (Everyman's Library)

ISBN: 9780375411748

作者: Plato

出版社: Everyman's Library

出版年: 2001-03-06

页数: 240

定价: USD 19.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato's dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. And of the dialogues, the Symposium is the most delightful and accessible, requiring no special knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy or customs. Dramatizing a party in fifth-century B.C. Athens, the deceptively unassuming Symposium introduces--in the guise of convivial after-dinner conversation--profound ideas about the nature of love. In Phaedrus, here published together with the Symposium, Plato discusses the place of eloquence in expounding truth. In both dialogues, Socrates plays the leading role, by turns teasing, arguing, analyzing, joking, inspiring, and cajoling his followers into understanding ideas that have remained central to Western thought through the centuries.