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Symposium/Phaedrus

plato tom griffith r.b. rutherford

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Two important dialogues offer crucial insights into mystical and aesthetic aspects of Platonic doctrine. Symposium attempts to find the ultimate manifestation of the love that controls the world, leading to mystic union with eternal and supercosmic beauty. Phaedrus discusses the psychology of love, resulting in the concept of the familiar Platonic "forms" as objects of transcendental emotion.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,-0370

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Format
240 pages, Hardcover
Published
January 1, 2000 by Everyman's Library / Knopf
ISBN
9780641578328
ASIN
0641578326
Language
English

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Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He raised problems for what became all the major areas of both theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Platonic Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the doctrines that would later become known as Platonism.
Plato's most famous contribution is the theory of forms (or ideas), which has been interpreted as advancing a solution to what is now known as the problem of universals. He was decisively influenced by the pre-Socratic thinkers Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and Parmenides, although much of what is known about them is derived from Plato himself.
Along with his teacher Socrates, and Aristotle, his student, Plato is a central figure in the history of philosophy. Plato's entire body of work is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years—unlike that of nearly all of his contemporaries. Although their popularity has fluctuated, they have consistently been read and studied through the ages. Through Neoplatonism, he also greatly influenced both Christian and Islamic philosophy. 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."

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Elsa95
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What a misunderstanding on love!
I pray the LORD leads more people to 1 Corinthians 13 and Romans 1 to actually see what this madness is really about. Plato was as wrong as we could be as humans.
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jspabi
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Socrates knows no more about love than you do BUT he will still gladly knock over your pretty sandcastles!
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Thật sự đây là Cuốn sách rất có não dạo này mình đọc được, khi đọc kiểu rất bất ngờ về các quan niệm mới lạ mà tới giờ mới biết đồng thời biết thêm nhiều về các câu chuyện hay ho về thần thoại hy lạp như trước kia con người có hình dạng như qua trứng, tất cả đều gấp đôi 4 chân, 4 tay hai mặt đối diện nhai và nhất là hai giới có thể là nam nam, nữ nữ và nữ nam, bởi vì do gấp đôi nên cũng thông minh hơn nên họ muốn lật đổ thần linh nên khi thần zeus biết đã quyết định chẻ con người làm đôi vừa giảm sự thông minh vừa tăng số lượng người cúng tế và lỗ rốn là dấu tích còn xót lại để nhắc nhở sự việc đó và chính vì điều đó mà con người chúng ta cứ nháo nhào đi tìm một nữa bị mất và luôn cảm giác bị thiếu hụt gì đó,
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my favorite speech is Aristophanes - where he tells the story of how Zeus spilt androgenous people in half, and we are looking for our other half, and finding that person is what love is...
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