Symposium

出版者:Hackett

作者:Plato

页数:107

译者:Alexander Nehamas

出版时间:1989

价格:GBP 24.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780872200777

图书标签:哲学Plato古希腊英文原版柏拉图外国文学Philosophy男性

Review

An all-male dinner party in Athens in 416 BC, with plentiful wine and attentive serving-girls, seems an unlikely setting for one of the world's greatest treatises on the nature of love. Yet in the Symposium Plato presents a series of witty, erudite and immensely readable speeches on love, in a setting which would be very familiar to the Athenians of the day. Students of classical Greek will delight in Robin Waterfield's fluent yet comfortable translation. His emphasis on accessibility rather than over-literalism has produced a translation sparkling with wit and ideas, which classicists and non-classicists alike will enjoy reading. Waterfield's fascinating introduction to the text provides valuable background to the sexual mores of the time and the social culture of classical Greece. He also examines each speech in detail, elucidating some of the more oblique points of the text to enable the reader to tackle it with confidence. The Greek playwright Agathon has walked off with the laurels at a recent competition, and is celebrating his victory with a select dinner party, or symposium. As he and his guests take their places, they decide to hold back on the amount of wine they consume and talk about love. The guests at the symposium are a mixed bunch of characters, who deliver their speeches in various styles and with different reactions from their appreciative listeners. Agathon's fellow playwright, the comic master Aristophanes, is there, as is Erxymachus, a doctor, and of course Socrates himself, brilliant philosopher and Plato's mentor. The conversation ranges from a declaration of the importance of homoerotic love to Socrates's account of his discussions with the prophetess Diotima, who claimed that we can only achieve true goodness through love. Into this scene of convivial discussion bursts Alcibiades, ex-lover of Socrates, military genius and famous bon viveur with a scandalous reputation. Thrusting himself between Socrates and his latest lover, Agathon, Alcibiades insists on joining in with the discussion but soon digresses and talks about his own love for Socrates. Although some critics have found the gate-crashing Alcibiades's speech sits awkwardly on such profound metaphysical discussion, it reminds the reader of the physical reality of love, while making several pointed references back to earlier speeches. As Waterfield says at the beginning of his introduction, the Symposium should be read at a sitting and re-visited for further enjoyment and insight. Layer after layer of meaning becomes revealed, and this slender dialogue proves to be a box of ever-increasing delights. (Kirkus UK)

读后感

这是一篇《哲学与人生》课程期末论文。谈论爱欲的哲学家少之又少。其中，柏拉图的态度比较温和，更容易被我们从直觉上接受。 我想说一句很无知的话：如果我们把爱搞明白了，大概就能搞明白世界上的一切。 【摘要】《会饮篇》（或《论爱情》，伦理的）是柏拉图以对话体完成的关...  

一、世间绘：《会饮》的形式及其取向 这篇文章要呈现的是一些思想，复数的“思想”[1]。 我们得从《会饮》（Symposium）的背景谈起。悲剧诗人阿伽通得了大奖在家宴客，邀请了包括苏格拉底[2]在内的众多人士，大家围坐在一起侃侃而谈。觥筹交错间，大家都想找点事情来消遣，而不...

看到一篇老美的研究文章里面分析所谓苏格拉底式的自由，其特征之一便是不进入任何一段交易关系中，不收人家的钱，就不需要迎合别人，去说一些违心奉迎的话。这是柏拉图笔下的苏格拉底与智者们最大的区别之一。（而对比喜剧作家阿里斯托芬的《云》里，苏格拉底照样是收人钱财，...  

用户评价

女性地位尚未看中

对爱情的理解。。。别的先不看先看看柏拉图吧

这群古希腊哲学家一本正经胡说八道再自圆其说的本领真的很impressive. 对（男性）同性之爱的崇尚和褒奖令人咂舌和艳羡。最触动我的还是alcibiades对socrates的一片痴心。

作为受过一定教育的现代学生可以很轻易地说出“哲学就是爱智慧”，但symposium 所在讲述的是哲学和eros/desire/beauty联系起来的那个过程。上课时不断想起互联网meme：You think you know me, think again.

性别和爱的等级划分。灵魂伴侣。