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‎Plato‎

‎Euthydemus‎

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‎Plato; Benjamin Jowett (Translation); Whitney J. Oates (Preface); Eugene Karlin (Illustrations)‎

‎Dialogues on Love and Friendship: Lysis; The Symposium; Phaedrus‎

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‎Plato‎

‎Symposium. Plato.‎

‎<p>In a fitted Box. Brown cloth with gilt title on the spine. Tan image of figures climbing stairs across the boards.</p><p>A rare Folio Edition</p><p>The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385–370 BC. It concerns itself at one level with the genesis purpose and nature of love and in latter-day interpretations is the origin of the concept of Platonic love. Love is examined in a sequence of speeches by men attending a symposium or drinking party. Each man must deliver an encomium a speech in praise of Love . Plato's meditation on passionate love or the Greek eros is both pivotal to our understanding of his wider philosophy and one of Ancient Greece's greatest and most beautiful literary triumphs. Translated by Tom Griffiths.</p><p>In the Symposium Plato presents the love of wisdom as the highest form of love and philosophy as a refinement of our sexual urges that leads us to desire wisdom over sex. That is we do not seek wisdom by first suppressing sexual desire and other distractions but rather by refining that desire and training it on a higher purpose. Plato sets his dialogue at a symposium which was one of the highlights of Athenian social life and amidst a discussion about Love to show us that philosophy is not removed from the business of everyday life. On the contrary philosophy is the highest expression of the loves and desires that motivate us in everyday activities. If we could see things clearly Plato suggests we would see that our attraction to beautiful people or good music or exciting movies is really an attraction to Beauty itself and that philosophy is the most direct route to getting at what we most desire.</p><p>Diotima describes love as the pursuit of beauty in a gradual ascent from the particular to the general culminating in an understanding of the Form of Beauty. Even the most ignorant soul is drawn to beauty on some level. What most of us don't realize she suggests is that what attracts us to a beautiful person for instance is that we perceive in that person an idea of the greater Form of Beauty. That is we are attracted not to the person but to the beauty in the person. If our love is keen enough we will not be satisfied by beautiful people but will seek out beauty in more generalized forms: in minds in the structure of a well-ordered state and ultimately in the Form of Beauty itself the most generalized form that beauty takes. Once we have come to grasp the Form of Beauty we will have grasped the fundamental truth that the reality of our experience is just a shadow world compared with the ideal eternal and unchanging world of Forms. This Theory of Forms is presented in greater detail in the Phaedo and the Republic. Here we get the hint that the way to an understanding of Forms is through a love of beauty.</p><p>The dialogue's structure mirrors the progression Diotima describes of pursuing beauty in increasingly refined and generalized forms. Each speech in the dialogue takes us a step closer to understanding the true nature of love. Phaedrus gives us a simple enthusiasm for the value of love; Pausanias distinguishes between good and bad forms of love; Eryximachus expands the definition to cover other fields of inquiry; Aristophanes gives us a delightful account of the urgency of love; and Agathon applies the refined art of rhetoric to understanding love. Only by first considering and seeing the limitations in these earlier speeches can we then appreciate the importance of Socrates' speech. We should also note that in Eryximachus Aristophanes and Agathon we have representatives of medicine comedy and tragedy all three of which are important components of a healthy life. By having Socrates trump these other three Plato is suggesting that philosophy is more important to our well-being than these other disciplines.</p><p>The original Greek text contains a number of untranslatable puns that enhance our understanding of the relationship between love desire and philosophy. The Greek word eros translated as "love" is also the root of our word erotic and can be used in Greek to describe sexual desire. Socrates is thus being coy when he explains that Diotima taught him everything he knows about eros a coyness that is enhanced when we discover that Diotima of Mantinea was the name of a well-known temple prostitute in ancient Greece. The implication is that Socrates came to Diotima seeking sex but she instead taught him about beauty and wisdom. This implication further reinforces the suggestion that the desire for wisdom is a refinement and not a denial of our desire for sex. In the dialogue Diotima becomes the model of Beauty which every lover seeks while Socrates becomes the model of Love being himself neither beautiful nor satisfied but constantly seeking more. This picture of Socrates the lover further plays on the word philosopher which literally means "lover of wisdom."</p><p>While the Symposium contains a great deal of explicit homoerotic content it would be a distortion to label characters in the dialogue as homosexual or bisexual. These sorts of categories are modern inventions that do not just denote a person's sexual preference but also define a person according to his or her sexual preference. Greek society for the most part didn't consider sexual preference as a defining personality trait so labeling Greeks as homosexual or heterosexual would be as odd to them as defining modern students as "white sock wearers" or "colored sock wearers." Almost all Greek men married women and had children Plato is a rare exception while many Greek men also pursued less permanent sexual relations with other men. The activities thought most to display virtue and glory such as athletics warfare and politics were exclusively the realm of men so two men could share in this virtue and glory in a way that a man and a woman could not. Consequently male–male relationships were often romanticized whereas male–female relationships were viewed as purely practical affairs which united families and produced children. These two different kinds of relationships existed alongside one another and both were considered healthy and natural.</p><p>Plato 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. In Athens Plato founded the Academy a philosophical school where he taught the philosophical doctrines that would later become known as Platonism. Plato or Platon was a pen name derived apparently from the nickname given to him by his wrestling coach – allegedly a reference to his physical broadness. According to Alexander of Miletus quoted by Diogenes of Sinope his actual name was Aristocles son of Ariston of the deme Collytus Collytus being a district of Athens.</p><p>Plato was an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy. He raised problems for what later became all the major areas of both theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy. His most famous contribution is the Theory of forms which has been interpreted as advancing a solution to what is now known as the problem of universals. He is also the namesake of Platonic love and the Platonic solids.</p><p>His own most decisive philosophical influences are usually thought to have been along with Socrates the pre-Socratics Pythagoras Heraclitus and Parmenides although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from Plato himself.</p><p>Along with his teacher Socrates and his student Aristotle Plato is a central figure in the history of philosophy. Unlike the work of nearly all of his contemporaries Plato's entire body of work is believed to have survived intact for over 2400 years. Although their popularity has fluctuated Plato's works have consistently been read and studied. Through Neoplatonism Plato also greatly influenced both Christian through e.g. Augustine of Hippo and Islamic philosophy through e.g. Al-Farabi. In modern times Alfred North Whitehead famously said: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.</p> The Folio Society. hardcover‎

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‎Plato‎

‎Alcibiades I & II‎

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‎Plato‎

‎Sophist‎

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‎Socrates Now: Think. Question. Change. Audio Theater‎

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‎The Philebus Of Plato With A Revised Text 1860‎

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‎The Protagoras of Plato‎

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‎The Platonic Dialogues for English Readers Volume 3‎

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‎Brounoff, Platon Gregoriewitch‎

‎Stolen Correspondence From The ""dead Letter"" Office Between Musical Celebrities‎

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‎Plato With an English Translation‎

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‎Meno a Dialogue Concerning Virtue.‎

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‎Platonis et quae vel Platonis esse feruntur vel Platonica solent comitari scripta graece omnia Volume 3‎

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‎The Republic‎

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‎La Democratie Et Le Regime Fiscal: A Athenes A Rome Et A De Nos Jours 1899 French Edition‎

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‎Plato‎

‎Protagoras‎

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‎Cratylus‎

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‎The Education Of The Young In The Republic Of Plato 1900‎

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‎Plato‎

‎Euthyphro‎

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‎Menexenus‎

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‎Platonis Apologia Socratis Svethice Reddita 1835 English and Latin Edition‎

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‎Laches‎

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‎Phaedo‎

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‎Philebus‎

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‎The Parmenides Of Plato: With Introduction Analysis And Notes 1882‎

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