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Symposium (Illustrated): A Philosophy of Love
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Love is praised as beautiful.
Socrates asks what it lacks.
At Agathon's house, a quiet feast becomes a philosophical argument about love, desire, beauty, and the soul. Each speaker offers a different vision of Love: as honor, harmony, longing, beauty, and finally as a force that reaches beyond the body toward wisdom itself.
This illustrated adaptation of Plato's Symposium preserves the banquet, the speeches in praise of Love, Socrates' questioning, Diotima's ladder of beauty, and Alcibiades' wounded praise of Socrates, while reshaping the reading experience into a clearer, more contemplative form.
The room still gathers around wine, conversation, rivalry, desire, laughter, interruption, and dawn. But the attention stays close to the movement of the dialogue: the first praises of Love, the myth of divided bodies, the ascent toward beauty itself, and the strange force Socrates exerts over those who come near him.
This edition includes original chapter illustrations created for this adaptation.
For readers drawn to classical philosophy, philosophical dialogue, and Plato's philosophy of love, this edition offers a slower, more readable passage through one of the most famous conversations ever written about desire, beauty, wisdom, and what human beings seek when they love.
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