El Banquete, de Platón - explicación del libro

We are going to talk about one of the most beautiful, profound, and moving texts in the entire history of Western culture: Plato's Symposium, also known as The Banquet. Writing a great philosophical work is very difficult; creating a poetic and moving work of art is a feat. But to do both at the same time—to write a work that is both

beautifully poetic and philosophically profound—that is what makes a genius like Plato. In the Symposium, the Symposium is a text that opens a door to the mystery of love: what love is, how it operates, what effects it has, how it is cultivated and made to grow. This is what the Symposium deals with. This

dialogue by Plato has a winding path with several stops. It speaks of the bond between the lover and the beloved, of the body, of health, of sexual pleasures, of virtue. It gradually reveals different visions about love. It takes its root in Desire, the desire that constitutes us as human beings, to finally transport us along the

highway of philosophy to the highest point, to the knowledge of the world of ideas, and in particular, the idea of... beauty and thus we will come to glimpse what Platonic love is. I will be interspersing my summary of the symposium with my interpretations. This video is made both to accompany those who are reading this work and want to

understand it better, and for those who do not plan to read it but need a summary. The word symposium in Greek literally means drinking with others or drinking party. In a typical Greek symposium, the guests, who are always free adult males (i.e., not slaves), recline in armchairs, two per armchair, arranged in a square that allows for