Symposium and Phaedrus

by Plato

Book Overview

Among the most influential thinkers in Western history, Plato presented his thought in a series of dramatic dialogues in which different speakers present various aspects of a philosophical problem. This volume contains two of the most interesting and important of these dialogues.
The philosophic goal of the Symposium is to find the ultimate manifestation of the love that controls the world, leading to mystic union with eternal and supercosmic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486277984
• ISBN13: 9780486277981
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher