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A Macat research of Plato's The Symposium Translated by M. C. Howatson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 It may sound like the set-up for a joke - "A playwright, a philosopher, and a general walk into get together..." But, some 2,500 years after it was written, Plato's Symposium remains an integral text message for philosophers, historians, authors, designers, and politicians. Plato imagines a social gathering - a symposium - organised in the Athens of the late fifth hundred years BC. He invites seven important historical numbers like the philosopher Socrates, the comic playwright Aristophanes, and the notorious military services general Alcibiades. As entertainment, each guest gives a conversation praising eros (individual love or erotic desire). Plato then "gathers" these several speeches into Symposium. Plato often used this "dramatic dialogue," and many scholars consider Symposium to be the finest exemplory case of the technique. From this vibrant competition of words, Plato reveals key philosophical ideas about love, ethics, knowledge and the essential nature of being. Combining a powerful literary family portrait of intellectuals at play with some radical philosophical concepts, Symposium is constantly on the captivate and educate listeners to this day. You'll find out more about how precisely Plato's ideas have been challenged and applied - and exactly how his work has impacted on thinkers in other educational disciplines - by discovering further in the Macat Collection. Macat's analyses cover 14 different subjects in the humanities and cultural sciences. Macat. Learn better. Think smarter. Target higher.
