One morning after sitting in on another students exhibition, I had about two hours to kill. So I walked into Barnes & Nobel and found myself in the philosophy section and picked up this book. I sat down an dbarley looked up fromit's pages. The ideas in this book were not only well fleshed out but very thought provoking. I am sure I will have to read it again and take notes becuase there were mnay ideas presented in the book that I strongly disagreed with. Also, I believe some research should be done on the time period because here was alot of reference to acticities of the time, and also tomen's sexual relationships with boys, I knew little of this, and so when I read about it, it was off-putting. However if you are interested in philosophy or reading about ohter people's ideas about the conncept of love, I would suggest reading this book.