What is Plato’s Symposium, the classic book drawn into the Gender Queer culture wars?
- Written by Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
Plato's Symposium, Anselm Feuerbach, 1869.Wikimedia Commons, CC BYIt was probably inevitable, but is deeply sad, that Plato’s Symposium (circa 380 BCE), has been drawn into the culture wars. A dialogue of great complexity and elegance, the book is one of the principal sources of the Greek philosopher’s views on love and beauty.
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