Plato's "Symposium" - translated here, and with a commentary - is arguably one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. It recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include Aristophanes, Alcibiades and Socrates. The revellers discuss a variety of topics.

Plato's "Symposium" - translated here, and with a commentary - is arguably one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. It recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include Aristophanes, Alcibiades and Socrates. The revellers discuss a variety of topics.

In his Symposium, Plato crafted a set of speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. Early Christian writers read the dialogue's 'ascent passage' as a vision of the soul's journey to heaven. Ficino's commentary on the Symposium inspired poets and artists throughout Renaissance Europe and introduced 'a Platonic love' into com...(展开全部)

作者简介： 珍·罗伯兹（Jane Roberts），生于纽约撒拉托加温泉市，是20世纪最重要的通灵人之一。珍除了是赛斯书的作者外，还著有十余本小说、非小说以及诗等作品，风行全世界。赛斯是一位现已不具形体、居于多次元实相中的灵性导师，从1963年开始，赛斯借由珍口述，并由珍的丈夫逐字记录赛斯资料，这些资料被认为是新时代运动的基石，目前保存在耶鲁大学图书馆，被西方誉为人类有史以来最全面系统的修行体系。赛斯书探讨的范围涵盖了心理学、超心理学、医学、物理学等，都是最具原创性的观念。 译者简介： 王季庆，台湾成功大学毕业，留学加拿大，并旅美十余年。经历半生的心灵追寻，遍览各类心理、宗教、哲学、神秘学等书籍。于1976年首度接触启悟性的“赛斯资料”后，心弦震动，遂开始翻译赛斯书系列及新时代经典作品共十余种，在台湾成立“新时代中心”，致力将新时代的讯息介绍给更多人...(展开全部)

Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In "Mind and World", based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, John McDowell offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. He illustrates a major problem of modern philosophy - the insidious persistence of dualism - in his discussion of empirical thought. Much as...(展开全部)

Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In "Mind and World", based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, John McDowell offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. He illustrates a major problem of modern philosophy - the insidious persistence of dualism - in his discussion of empirical thought. Much as...(展开全部)

From Library Journal In fall 1959, Strauss offered a course at the University of Chicago titled "Plato's Political Philosophy," during which he lectured on the Symposium. It was suggested shortly after that the lectures be reworked and published, and Strauss agreed. Benardete (classics, New York Univ.) worked on the manuscript, but Strauss was not satisfied with the results, an...(展开全部)

In this volume Leo Strauss presents a coherent and complete interpretation of Plato's "Symposium", proceeding by meticulous reading, from beginning to end. Strauss, operating on the idea that commentary is an useful method of expounding the truth, sheds light on the meaning of the dialogue and its place in the Platonic corpus, and also on a host of other topics, including the n...(展开全部)

代序 坡的一生 在埃德加·爱伦·坡的身边 莫斯肯旋涡沉浮记 白葡萄酒上的随笔 蒙特亚白葡萄酒的诅咒 一桶蒙特亚白葡萄酒 黑猫 身份认同的转折点 威廉·威尔逊 一个陌生的城市：爱伦·坡祝酒人与我 瓶中手稿 一个阴郁的午夜 厄舍府之倒塌 埃德加·爱伦·坡 瓦尔德马先生病例之真相 电影院里的爱伦·坡和我 丽姬娅 泄密的心 第一次 泄密的心 陷坑与钟摆 爱伦·坡、马克·吐温和我 红死病的假面具 尸地禁区 莫格街凶杀案 想象埃德加·爱伦·坡 金甲虫 怒吼和呓语 关于坡的一点随想 乌鸦 G小调上的坡 钟声 我是如何成为埃德加·爱伦·坡迷的 阿·戈·皮姆的故事（节选）

Karl Barth's monumental work, "Church Dogmatics," is recognized as a landmark in Protestant theology--perhaps the most important work of this century. However, the size range of its fourteen volumes has meant that its content and significance may not be so widely known or appreciated as it deserves. In this concise introduction, Helmut Gollwitzer provides a selection of some of...(展开全部)