by Plato · LGF · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253057284
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Le banquet is a work by the Greek philosopher Plato that explores the theme of love through a series of speeches delivered by various characters at a banquet. Each speaker offers their own perspective on the nature, origins, and purpose of love, culminating in Socrates' philosophical vision of love as a desire for beauty and good that can lead to knowledge and virtue.
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.
