It was probably inevitable, but is deeply sad, that Plato’s Symposium (circa 380 BCE), has been drawn into the culture wars. A dialogue of great complexity and elegance, the book is one of the ...

When we use the word “Eros” today, we often invoke assumptions shaped more by psychoanalysis than by the ancient Greek god of love. Psychoanalytic thinkers have long been drawn to Plato’s Symposium.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper gives a new interpretation of the central section of Plato's Symposium (199d-212a). According to this interpretation, the term ...

Scholars have recently argued that in the Symposium Plato is critical of Socrates and falls closer than his philosophic spokesman to the side of poetry in the old quarrel between philosophy and poetry ...

Description: What draws us to politics? Is political ambition an extension or a betrayal of the love of other human beings? What is the relationship between the ordering of our loves and public order?

Halifax's Zuppa Theatre Co. has adapted Plato's Symposium — the ancient philosopher's rollicking dialogue on love — to the present in a performance that highlights the Symposium's social side. (AP ...

EASTON — Forrest Hansen will use the round table approach to examining and discussing selections from one of Plato’s most well-known dialogues, “Symposium,” sometimes titled “The Drinking Party,” in a ...

For he who would proceed aright in this matter … will create many fair and noble thoughts and notions in boundless love and wisdom; until on that shore he grows and waxes strong, and at last the ...