by Platon · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081422582
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«Le Banquet» is Plato's philosophical dialogue for the Prépas scientifiques, published by Flammarion in paperback (302 pages, in French).
A group of diners gathered at a banquet delivers successive speeches on love and beauty. Socrates introduces the teaching of Diotima, who presents desire as an ascending path towards the beautiful itself. The volume includes a dossier analyzing love as a path of transformation, the longing for unity and its philosophical justifications.
The original text is in Ancient Greek; the translation and presentation are by Luc Brisson and the dossier by Arnaud Sorosina. It is the edition prescribed for the 2019 Prépas scientifiques on «love».
Support edition for students of the French Prépas scientifiques, with material oriented to the philosophy syllabus.
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the collection of philosophical theories that would later become known as Platonism.
