• 导读
  • 古希腊的一群男子在一场酒宴之中的谈话,讨论的主题是爱的本质。

    In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge to conventional views by Plato's mentor, Socrates, who advocates transcendence through spiritual love. The Symposium is a deft interweaving of different viewpoints and ideas about the nature of love—as a response to beauty, a cosmic force, a motive for social action and as a means of ethical education.

  • 内容简介
  • 《会饮篇》是古希腊哲学家柏拉图所著的一篇对话式的作品,是以对话或者演讲的形式写成的,其背景是古希腊的一群男子在一场酒宴之中的谈话,所讨论的主题是爱的本质。本书表达了柏拉图的内心信念,即不可见的事物是永久的。

    The Symposium 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 (Eros). The party takes place at the house of the tragedian Agathon in Athens. Socrates in his speech asserts that the highest purpose of love is to become a philosopher or, literally, a lover of wisdom. The dialogue has been used as a source by social historians seeking to throw light on life in ancient Athens, in particular upon sexual behavior, and the symposium as an institution.

  • 作者简介
  • 柏拉图(约公元前427年-公元前347年),古希腊伟大的哲学家,也是全部西方哲学乃至整个西方文化中最伟大的哲学家和思想家之一,他和老师苏格拉底,学生亚里士多德并称为希腊三大哲学家。另有其创造或发展的概念包括:柏拉图思想、柏拉图主义、柏拉图式爱情、经济学图表等。柏拉图也记录了苏格拉底的一些话,为苏格拉底的名言,警示后人。

    Classical Greek philosopher, who together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the philosophical foundations of Western culture.

  • 目录
    • SYMPOSIUM