Plato: The Symposium by M C Howatson
Plato's Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended by some of the leading intellectuals of the day, including Aristophanes, the comic dramatist, Socrates, Plato's mentor, and Alcibiades, the brilliant but (eventually) treacherous politician. Each guest gives a speech in praise of the benefits of desire and its role in the good and happy human life. At the core of the work stands Socrates' praise of philosophical desire, and an argument for the superiority of the philosophical life as the best route to happiness. This edition provides an accessible and engaging new translation by M. C. Howatson, and a substantial introduction, by Frisbee C. C. Sheffield, which guides the reader through the various parts of the dialogue and reflects on its central arguments. A chronology and detailed notes on the participants help to set this enduring work in context.-
Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy
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Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
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Nietzsche: The Gay Science
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Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
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Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human
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Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
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Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
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Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals
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Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling
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Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise
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Nietzsche: Writings from the Late Notebooks
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Kierkegaard: Concluding Unscientific Postscript
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Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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Nietzsche: Daybreak
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Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings
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Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
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Plato: Meno and Phaedo
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Kant: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
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Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism
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Spinoza: Ethics
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Schleiermacher: On Religion
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Francis Bacon: The New Organon
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Cicero: On Moral Ends
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Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion
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Novalis: Fichte Studies
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La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings
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Leibniz: New Essays on Human Understanding
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Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings
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Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking
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Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings
M.C. Howatson is Emeritus Fellow in Classics at St Anne's College, Oxford. Frisbee C. C. Sheffield is Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College, London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521682985 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521682983 |
| Title | Plato: The Symposium |
| Author | M C Howatson |
| Series | Cambridge Texts In The History Of Philosophy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2008-04-24 |
| Number of pages | 132 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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