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Symposium

Plato

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 75 pages

Symposium is Plato's philosophical dialogue in which guests at a banquet each give a speech about love. Through Socrates and the priestess Diotima, the discussion moves from desire to beauty and wisdom. It rewards listeners with lively characters and a reasoned inquiry into what love can lead us toward.

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Opening of the book

SYMPOSIUM
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Contents
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 time
when they were uttered (compare Symp.)—which were wiser

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Contents

  1. SYMPOSIUM
  2. Translated by Benjamin Jowett
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION.
  5. SYMPOSIUM
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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