Philosophy
The Symposium
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA dinner party of Athenian men each take a turn praising love, until one guest arrives late, uninvited, and considerably drunker than propriety allows, and delivers the most honest speech of the whole evening. Plato lets Socrates’ famous argument sit right alongside the far messier human testimony surrounding it. It is the rare philosophy text that remembers people are also, stubbornly, bodies at a party.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 2 hr 10 min
- Where to find it
- On the Philosophy shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1600. In the public domain in the United States.