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Lysis/Phaedrus/Symposium: Plato on Homosexuality (Great Books in Philosophy)
"And when the other is beside him, he shares his respite from anguish; when he is absent, he likewise shares his longing and being longed for, since he possesses that counterlove which is the image of love, though he supposes it to be friendship rather than love, and calls it by that name" (from the Phaedrus).
The nature of love and friendship and their varying manifestatio...more
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paper, 157 pages
Published
December 1st 1991
by Prometheus Books
(first published December 1st 1990)
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Birth c. 428–427 BC, Athens
Death c. 348–347 BC, Athens
Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.
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Death c. 348–347 BC, Athens
Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.
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