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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Two important dialogues offer crucial insights into Platonic doctrine. <i>Symposium</i> deals with ultimate manifestation of love, eternal beauty. <i>Phaedrus</i> discusses psychology of love, forms as objects of transcendental emotion. Jowett translation.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Among the most influential thinkers in Western history, Plato presented his thought in a series of dramatic dialogues in which different speakers present various aspects of a philosophical problem. This volume contains two of the most interesting and important of these dialogues. <br>The philosophic goal of the <i>Symposium</i> is to find the ultimate manifestation of the love that controls the world, leading to mystic union with eternal and supercosmic beauty. <i>Phaedrus</i> discusses the psychology of love, resulting in the concept of the familiar Platonic forms as objects of transcendental emotion. In this inexpensive edition of the renowned Jowett translation, they will be welcomed by anyone interested in Greek thought or the philosophy of Plato.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Plato ranks among the most familiar ancient philosophers, along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle. In addition to writing philosophical dialogues -- used to teach logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion, and mathematics as well as philosophy -- he founded Athens' Academy, the Western world's first institution of higher learning.

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