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Plato, the Symposium
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Plato / Howatson M C / Sheffield Frisbee Candida Cheyenne
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Platos Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended by some of the leading intellectuals of the day, including Aristophanes, the comic dramatist, Socrates, Platos mentor, and Alcibiades, the brilliant but (eventually) treacherous politician. Each guest gives a speech in praise of the benefits of desire and its role in the good and happy human life. At the core of the work stands Socrates praise of philosophical desire, and an argument for the superiority of the philosophical life as the best route to happiness. This edition provides an accessible and engaging new translation by M. C. Howatson, and a substantial introduction, by Frisbee C. C. Sheffield, which guides the reader through the various parts of the dialogue and reflects on its central arguments. A chronology and detailed notes on the participants help to set this enduring work in context

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CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

PLATO The Symposium

Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

Series editors

Karl Ameriks

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame

Desmond M. Clarke

Professor of Philosophy at University College Cork

The main objective of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy is to expand the range, variety, and quality of texts in the history of philosophy which are available in English. The series includes texts by familiar names (such as Descartes and Kant) and also by less well-known authors. Wherever possible, texts are published in complete and unabridged form, and translations are specially commissioned for the series. Each volume contains a critical introduction together with a guide to further reading and any necessary glossaries and textual apparatus. The volumes are designed for student use at undergraduate and postgraduate level and will be of interest not only to students of philosophy, but also to a wider audience of readers in the history of science, the history of theology, and the history of ideas.

For a list of titles published in the series, please see .

Titles published in the series thus far

Aquinas Disputed Questions on the Virtues (edited by E.M. Atkins and Thomas Williams )

Aquinas Summa Theologiae, Questions on God (edited by Brian Davies and Brian Leftow )

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (edited by Roger Crisp )

Arnauld and Nicole Logic or the Art of Thinking (edited by Jill Vance Buroker )

Augustine On the Trinity (edited by Gareth Matthews )

Bacon The New Organon (edited by Lisa Jardine and Michael Silverthorne)

Boyle A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (edited by Edward B. Davis and Michael Hunter )

Bruno Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic (edited by Richard Blackwell and Robert de Lucca with an introduction by Alfonso Ingegno )

Cavendish Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (edited by Eileen ONeill )

Cicero On Moral Ends (edited by Julia Annas , translated by Raphael Woolf )

Clarke A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God and Other Writings (edited by Ezio Vailati )

Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (edited by J.M. Bernstein )

Condillac Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge (edited by Hans Aarsleff )

Conway The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (edited by Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse )

Cudworth A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality with A Treatise of Freewill (edited by Sarah Hutton )

Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy , with selections from the Objections and Replies (edited by John Cottingham )

Descartes The World and Other Writings (edited by Stephen Gaukroger )

Fichte Foundations of Natural Right (edited by Frederick Neuhouser , translated by Michael Baur )

Fichte The System of Ethics (edited by Daniel Breazeale and Gnter Zller )

Hamann Philosophical Writings (edited by Kenneth Haynes )

Heine On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings (edited by Terry Pinkard , translated by Howard Pollack-Milgate)

Herder Philosophical Writings (edited by Michael Forster )

Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (edited by Vere Chappell )

Humboldt On Language (edited by Michael Losonsky , translated by Peter Heath )

Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and Other Writings (edited by Dorothy Coleman )

Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (edited by Stephen Buckle )

Kant Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (edited by Robert B. Louden with an introduction by Manfred Kuehn )

Kant Critique of Practical Reason (edited by Mary Gregor with an introduction by Andrews Reath )

Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (edited by Mary Gregor with an introduction by Christine M. Korsgaard

Kant Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (edited by Michael Friedman )

Kant The Metaphysics of Morals (edited by Mary Gregor with an introduction by Roger Sullivan )

Kant Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics (edited by Gary Hatfield )

Kant Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason and Other Writings (edited by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams )

Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling (edited by C. Stephen Evans and Sylvia Walsh )

La Mettrie Machine Man and Other Writings (edited by Ann Thomson )

Leibniz New Essays on Human Understanding (edited by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett )

Lessing Philosophical and Theological Writings (edited by H.B. Nisbet )

Malebranche Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion (edited by Nicholas Jolley and David Scott )

Malebranche The Search after Truth (edited by Thomas M. Lennon and Paul J. Olscamp )

Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (edited by Muhammad Ali Khalidi )

Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings (edited by Charles Manekin )

Melanchthon Orations on Philosophy and Education (edited by Sachiko Kusukawa , translated by Christine Salazar )

Mendelssohn Philosophical Writings (edited by Daniel O. Dahlstrom )

Newton Philosophical Writings (edited by Andrew Janiak )

Nietzsche The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols and Other Writings (edited by Aaron Ridley and Judith Norman )

Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil (edited by Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Judith Norman )

Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings (edited by Raymond Geuss and Ronald Speirs )

Nietzsche Daybreak (edited by Maudemarie Clark and Brian Leiter , translated by R.J. Hollingdale )

Nietzsche The Gay Science (edited by Bernard Williams , translated by Josefine Nauckhoff)

Nietzsche Human, All Too Human (translated by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Richard Schacht )

Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra (edited by Adrian Del Caro and Robert B. Pippin )

Nietzsche Untimely Meditations (edited by Daniel Breazeale , translated by R.J. Hollingdale )

Nietzsche Writings from the Late Notebooks (edited by Rdiger Bittner , translated by Kate Sturge )

Novalis Fichte Studies (edited by Jane Kneller )

Plato The Symposium (edited by M.C. Howatson and Frisbee C.C. Sheffield)

Reinhold Letters on the Kantian Philosophy (edited by Karl Ameriks , translated by James Hebbeler )

Schleiermacher Hermeneutics and Criticism (edited by Andrew Bowie )

Schleiermacher Lectures on Philosophical Ethics (edited by Robert Louden , translated by Louise Adey Huish )

Schleiermacher On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (edited by Richard Crouter )

Schopenhauer Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will (edited by Gnter Zller )

Sextus Empiricus Against the Logicians (edited by Richard Bett )

Sextus Empiricus Outlines of Scepticism (edited by Julia Annas and Jonathan Barnes )

Shaftesbury Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (edited by Lawrence Klein )

Adam Smith The Theory of Moral Sentiments (edited by Knud Haakonssen )

Spinoza Theological-Political Treatise (edited by Jonathan Israel , translated by Michael Silverthorne and Jonathan Israel )

Voltaire Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings (edited by Simon Harvey )

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