![]() ![]() The Republic, the best known of these many dialogues with Socrates, mentor, as the central character, expounds idealism of noted Greek philosopher Plato and describes a hypothetical utopian state that thinkers rule he taught and wrote for much his life at the Academy, which he founded near Athens around 386 BC. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. ![]() 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.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. ![]() The discussion culminates in a radical challenge to conventional views by Plato's mentor, Socrates, who advocates transcendence through spiritual love. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. ![]() A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. ![]()
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