In this text Plato uses a dinner party as a scene for a series of speeches by the guests. From these there emerges a complete and complex philosophy of love. The pivot of the argument is Socrates' speech in which sensuality is transcended and we move from the sensible world to the ideal world. Just as the preceding speeches are vital to the theme and scheme of progression, so to is the character sketch of Socrates by Alcibiades which rounds off the dialogue.

Plato: Symposium

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Jowett, Benjamin

Philosophy

Pearson

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Literature & Fiction

LONG, George

PLATO

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Franklin Classics

The Republic of Plato

The Dialogues of Plato: Meno. Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Gorgias. Appendix I: Lesser Hippias. Alcibiades I. Menexenus. Appendix II: Alcibiades II. Eryxias

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Dialogues of Plato

History

Wentworth Press

Theological Essays Of The Late Benjamin Jowett: Selected And Arranged (1906)

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Theology

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Dialogues of Plato (Containing the Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, & Pretagoras)

Telegraph Books

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