| #429800 in Books | 1998-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.20 x5.50l,.27 | File type: PDF | 80 pages||17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| The best edition|By stephen liem|In this review I will compare 5 translations of Plato's Symposium: 1. Alexander Nehamas & Paul Woodruff (Hackett Pub Co, 1989). 2. Benardete (University of Chicago Press, 2001). 3. R.E. Allen (Yale University Press, 1993). 4. Shelley's Translation (St Augustine Press, 2002) 5. Sharon (Focus Publishing/R.Pullins Co, 199
This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates and Alcibiades.
Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Plato's Symposium (Focus Philosophical Library) | Plato. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
