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	Plato's Ethics: An Overview (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Nevertheless, Plato continued to present his investigations as dialogues between Socrates and some partner or partners and preserved this form even in those of his late works where Socrates is replaced by a stand-in and the didactic nature of his presentations is hard to reconcile with the pretense of dialogue.
		Plato may or may not yet have envisaged the kind of solution to that problem he is going to present in the Republic: there he establishes a hierarchy among the virtues with wisdom, the only intellectual virtue, as their basis.
		Plato himself does not, however, pursue this idea in the rest of the dialogue, but his fanciful ‘geographical’ depiction of the under-, middle-, and upper world in the final myth can be read as a model of such an explanation in mythological garb.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/plato-ethics (16633 words)

	Plato's Political Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Plato describes the sophists as itinerant individuals, known for their rhetorical abilities, who reject religious beliefs and traditional morality, and he contrasts them with Socrates, who as a teacher would refuse to accept payment and instead of teaching skills would commit himself to a disinterested inquiry into what is true and just.
		Plato’s greatest achievement may be seen firstly in that he, in opposing the sophists, offered to decadent Athens, which had lost faith in her old religion, traditions, and customs, a means by which civilization and the city’s health could be restored: the recovery of order in both the polis and the soul.
		Plato’s achievement as a political philosopher may be seen in that he believed that there could be a body of knowledge whose attainment would make it possible to heal political problems, such as factionalism and the corruption of morals, which can bring a city to a decline.
	www.iep.utm.edu /p/platopol.htm (7226 words)

	Plato (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Plato's dialogues are not a static literary form; not only do his topics vary, not only do his speakers vary, but the role played by questions and answers is never the same from one dialogue to another.
		If we take Plato to be trying to persuade us, in many of his works, to accept the conclusions arrived at by his principal interlocutors (or to persuade us of the refutations of their opponents), we can easily explain why he so often chooses Socrates as the dominant speaker in his dialogues.
		Plato would not have invested so much time in the creation of this comprehensive and lengthy work, had he not believed that the creation of a political community ruled by those who are philosophically unenlightened is a project that deserves the support of his readers.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/plato (6951 words)

	Journal of the International Plato Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		To get from the text of the dialogues to any view that we can ascribe to Plato requires a hermeneutical hypothesis, an assumption about why Plato writes dialogues in the first place, and what his attitude is towards the various doctrines and theses presented in the text.
		In particular, I assume that dialogues are quite different from treatises, notebooks or journal articles, and that Plato does not write to clear his mind, set down his momentary thoughts, or experiment with ideas he has not yet thought through.
		But Plato did not believe that any doctrine or formula could successfully communicate this view to a reader in any direct way, so all of his most constructive statements are provisional, incomplete and subject to criticism and correction.
	www.nd.edu /~plato/plato2issue/kahn.htm (2422 words)

	Plato
		The result of his labor was a translation of Plato's principal work on love that is, in both clarity and felicity of expression, unmatched by any contemporary translation.
		Much of what the dialogue offers to today's reader ‑ namely, its invitation to see erotic experience as the privileged locus of our contact with the sacred and the divine ‑ is lost in translation by failures of tone more than by inaccuracies or simple infelicities.
		Plato's speeches on love need an English idiom in which myth is at home, and in which humor rises to urbanity rather than descending to mere wit and joke.
	www.wordtrade.com /philosophy/ancient/platosymposium.htm (542 words)

	Plato and his dialogues: new hypotheses
		Plato and his dialogues : Home - Biography - Works and links to them - History of interpretation - New hypotheses - Map of dialogues : table version or non tabular version.
		What's more, Plato, the supposed holder of a "theory of forms", put into practice in his dialogues what he was holding : he took great care of the "form" of his written works, because "form" has more to do with meaning than mere "matter" (here, the written words).
		And from the "map" you may proceed to comments on individual tetralogies and dialogues (names that don't show up as links in the "map" correspond to tetralogies and dialogues for which commentaries are not yet available).
	plato-dialogues.org /hypotsis.htm (608 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.04.54
		Plato's Symposium is the second installment in the series Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature.
		Playfulness notwithstanding, the subject matter of the dialogue is most serious: namely, the relation of eros to the form of the beautiful itself.
		For H. this distinction shows both that Agathon's symposium as told by Plato was a largely fictional event and that in composing the dialogue Plato was himself aware of the "problematic status" of writing an "unchanging account of a quintessentially oral occasion, the elite symposium" (p.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-04-54.html (2405 words)

	Amazon.com: The Symposium (Penguin Classics): Books: Plato,Christopher Gill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Plato's Symposium is the most literary of all his works and one which all students of classics are likely to want to read whether or not they are studying Plato's philosophy.
		Throughout the Symposium, Plato makes it clear that sexual relations are not the best thing at all for 'lovers'; they who wish for the highest happiness must seek to grow in virtue and wisdom and become increasingly detached from earthly pleasures.
		Plato's "Symposium" is the story of Agathon's dinner party where conversation takes place with a small group of men, who recline, eat and drink around a table offering their views on Love.
	www.amazon.com /Symposium-Penguin-Classics-Plato/dp/0140446168 (3279 words)

	Plato's Symposium
		The Symposium is one of the foundational documents of Western culture and arguably the most profound analysis and celebration of love in the history of philosophy.
		Throughout the dialogue (as virtually everywhere else in Plato) speech that appeals mainly to the senses turns out to be inferior as a mode of instruction to speech that appeals primarily to the intellect.
		It is surely one of the supreme ironies of the dialogue that Plato attributes its crowning insight to an absent woman (via her spokesperson Socrates) while gently ridiculing the prejudiced views and fitful half-truths of a party of drunken males.
	condor.depaul.edu /~dsimpson/tlove/symposium.html (1249 words)

	Plato's Dialogues
		It is believed that all forty-two of the dialogues that Plato wrote have survived.
		These dialogues were written for educated laymen (as opposed to the elite in his academy) in order to interest them in philosophy (Taylor 10).
		Plato's aim, then, in these early dialogues primarily, is critical: that is, to tear apart the inadequate moral views of others.
	www.molloy.edu /sophia/plato/plato_dialogues.htm (456 words)

	Plato and his dialogues : home
		Plato is probably one of the greatest philosophers of all times, if not the greatest.
		But if we have more than we would bargain for in terms of writings attributed to Plato, as some of the dialogues and letters transmitted to us under his name are obviously not his, we have very little data on his life and literary activity.
		As a result, many conflicting theories have been developed by scholars of various times regarding the interpretation of Plato's dialogues and their chronology to the extent it bears on that interpretation.
	plato-dialogues.org /plato.htm (794 words)

	Symposium (Plato)
		Symposium is a Socratic dialogue by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, student of Socrates.
		The dialogue is notable for Socrates' description of his own teacher, the deeply and broadly learned priestess Diotima.
		The less controversial salient point of the dialogue is the insight we get both to Socrates' wartime relationship with Alcibiades and his tutoring relationship with Diotima.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/SymposiumPlato.html (859 words)

	Plato's Symposium
		Though Plato was sometimes vague about the exact relationship between the two worlds, he has suggested two ways in which they may interact.
		Her dialogue with Socrates about the nature of love seems to be in three parts.
		Plato's Symposium reveals love, like wisdom, to be a dynamic, a flow of energy that operates throughout all the levels of human awareness, uniting and transcending or fragmenting and descending as it flows.
	www.cyberpat.com /shirlsite/essays/plato.html (1737 words)

	symposium
		The Symposium purports to describe, many years after it supposedly took place, a philosophical discussion of love during an after-dinner drinking party or symposium, held in 416 B.C.E. at the house of Agathon, a tragic poet who had just won first prize in the drama competition.
		The dialogue's form is complex and at first very confusing, because Plato reports the conversation indirectly by setting up an elaborate outer frame to the main discussion.
		Her speech will make more sense if you know something about what historians of philosophy call Plato's "theory of Forms." Scholarly consensus attributes the theory of Forms to the dialogues of Plato's middle period; in other words, it was not Socrates but Plato well into his own career who came up with it.
	www.auburn.edu /~goldsrj/2207F02/Symposium.html (1124 words)

	Symposium
		Symposium is one of the most famous studies on love.
		Symposium?" My thesis is that the speeches in Plato's dialogue revolve clockwise two times around the four-fold scheme that I have just laid out.
		Plato makes this point silently, letting Alcibiades have front and center stage, presenting Alcibiades at the peak of his career and a year before his infamous mission to Sicily.
	www.molloy.edu /sophia/plato/symp_comm.htm (7778 words)

	SparkNotes: Plato: Symposium
		In the Symposium, Plato presents the love of wisdom as the highest form of love and philosophy as a refinement of our sexual urges that leads us to desire wisdom over sex.
		Plato sets his dialogue at a symposium, which was one of the highlights of Athenian social life, and amidst a discussion about Love to show us that philosophy is not removed from the business of everyday life.
		If we could see things clearly, Plato suggests, we would see that our attraction to beautiful people or good music or exciting movies is really an attraction to Beauty itself and that philosophy is the most direct route to getting at what we most desire.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/plato/section4.rhtml (1473 words)

	Symposium (Plato) Summary
		The Symposium is a Socratic dialogue by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, student of Socrates, focusing on Eros (love) and its place in the philosophic path.
		Along with the Republic, it is often considered to be one of Plato's literary high points.
		Symposium (Plato): A fresco taken from the north wall of the Tomb of the Diver featuring an image of a symposium
	www.bookrags.com /Symposium_(Plato) (142 words)

	Phi298: The Symposium of Plato
		Plato's Symposium, Translated by Seth Benardete (Interpretive Essay by the translator and Alan Bloom), Chicago University Press.
		Interpreting Plato: The Dialogues As Drama, Arieti, James, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, (1991).
		For Plato the issue is the non-oppressive use of power and the power of beauty itself which can be misdirected.
	members.aol.com /thelogos/phi298.htm (1399 words)

	Teaching Plato's Symposium Page 5
		The occasion for the symposium described in the text is Agathon's victory in the tragedy competition.
		The traditional opposition between Dionysus (emotion, nature) and Apollo (reason, culture) is retained in the different speeches of the banqueters.
		Finally, I think that it is worthwhile to note that in this text alone Plato tells the story in the persona of Apollodorus who tells it through Aristodemus who then presents it through the masks of the participants.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/consortium/gormanteachingplatosymposium5.html (344 words)

	Plato's Symposium
		The dramatic nature of Plato’s dialogues is delightfully evident in the Symposium.
		The text of each dialogue is presented in a new translation, helping to bring each work to life for students and non-academic audiences.
		All of these dialogues are available to individuals on CD, and institutional licensing of the entire collection is available.
	www.pdcnet.org /agoraps.html (246 words)

	Study Questions for Week Five
		At this middle stage of the dialogue we find Socrates formulating the core hypothesis of the existence of the Forms and developing the hypothesis that the soul recollects what it knew before.
		An engraving of the scene of Plato's dialogue Symposium, a dtrinking party.
		An eighth century manuscript of Plato's dialogue Sophist with commentary in the margins.
	www.csulb.edu /~dbrown/fall05/phil203/assignments/sq05.html (787 words)

	sympos
		Plato is known for his theory of forms or 'ideas', the absolute essence that lies behind the material realm.
		Time: the symposium occurred "long ago" in 416 BCE; the account is supposedly provided by a certain Apollodoros in 406-400 BCE; the dialogue was probably written between 385-378 BCE.
		Since a symposium was not only a place to perform poetry or speeches about love but was also a place to pursue erotic attachments, we should pay attention to exchanges of various kinds between the participants as well as to the content of the speeches themselves.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classic/wilson/core/sympos.htm (2063 words)

	5.plato.symposium.htm
		Note the brief "present time" dialogue at the beginning of Symposium.
		Carefully consider other aspects of this "little dialogue" before the dialogue.
		His melodies moved people beyond their senses to a catharsis; they were possessed, transported.
	www2.smumn.edu /facpages/~jtadie/5_plato_symposium.htm (630 words)

	Symposium (Plato) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Symposium is a philosophical dialogue of Plato, written sometime after 385 BCE.
		The setting of the Symposium is a drinking party given at the house of the tragedian Agathon.
		The participants agree that since they had drunk excessively the previous evening, they will drink only enough this night to quench their thirst, and will spend their time giving speeches in praise of love (eros).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plato's_Symposium (3699 words)

	Plato's Symposium
		Rosen was also one of the first to study in detail the philosophical significance of the phenomenon of concrete human sexuality, as it is presented by Plato in the diverse characters of the main speakers in the dialogue.
		His analysis of the theoretical significance of pederasty in the dialogue was highly controversial at the time, but is today accepted as central to Plato’s dramatic phenomenology of human existence.
		One may say of this book what the author says of the Platonic dialogue as compared to a poem or a set of axioms: no description is equivalent to its content or it implications.” – Rémi Brague, Revue Philosophique de Louvain
	www.staugustine.net /platossymposium.html (210 words)

	symposium - OneLook Dictionary Search
		symposium : Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
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	The Internet Classics Archive \| Symposium by Plato
		Commentary: Quite a few comments have been posted about Symposium.
		Concerning the things about which you ask to be informed I believe that I am not ill-prepared with an answer.
		I said, "O thou stranger woman, thou sayest well; but, assuming Love to be such as you say, what is the use of him to men?" "That, Socrates," she replied, "I will attempt to unfold: of his nature and birth I have already spoken; and you acknowledge that love is of the beautiful.
	classics.mit.edu /Plato/symposium.html (8543 words)

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