如何谈论爱情：现代恋人的古代指南

How to Talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers

基本信息

Series:Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

Format:Hardback 208 pages, 1 b/w illus.

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Imprint:Princeton University Press

ISBN:9780691256887

Published:28 Jan 2025

Classifications:Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Self-help & personal development

Weight:254g

Dimensions:122 x 180 x 20 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在柏拉图伟大戏剧作品《会饮篇》选段的迷人新译本中探索爱的本质什么是爱？在诗歌、歌曲、小说、电影、心理学和哲学中，爱情被描述、赞美、哀叹和剖析的方式无穷无尽。爱情是基于身体吸引力吗？它能让我们变得更好吗？它与性有什么关系？爱情是神圣的吗？柏拉图的《会饮篇》是对此类问题的古老的、有影响力、深刻的探索之一——它甚至是“柏拉图式爱情”这一概念的源头。《如何谈论爱情》以生动、易读的新译本介绍并呈现了柏拉图哲学对话的关键段落和中心思想，并在对页上展示了希腊原文。《会饮篇》以一个虚构的饮酒聚会为背景，在此期间，雅典的杰出人物通过即兴演讲来赞美希腊爱与性之神厄洛斯，从而展开了一场友好的竞赛。

贵族斐德罗、法律专家保萨尼亚斯、医生厄律克西马科斯、喜剧剧作家阿里斯托芬和悲剧诗人阿伽同——每个人都轮流赞美爱情的不同方面，然后苏格拉底提出不要赞美爱情，而是说出爱情的真相。在后面的演讲中，政治家和浪荡子阿尔西比亚德斯认为苏格拉底本人就是爱情的缩影。 《如何谈论爱情》巧妙地捕捉了柏拉图杰作的精髓和精神，使《会饮篇》比以往更易于理解和欣赏。

Explore the nature of love in this charming new translation of selections from Plato’s great dramatic work, the SymposiumWhat is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, love has been described, admired, lamented, and dissected in endless ways. Is love based on physical attraction? Does it bring out our better selves? How does it relate to sex? Is love divine? Plato’s Symposium is one of the oldest, most influential, and most profound explorations of such questions—it is even the source of the idea of “Platonic love.” How to Talk about Love introduces and presents the key passages and central ideas of Plato’s philosophical dialogue in a lively and highly readable new translation, which also features the original Greek on facing pages. The Symposium is set at a fictional drinking party during which prominent Athenians engage in a friendly competition by delivering improvised speeches in praise of Eros, the Greek deity of love and sex.

The aristocrat Phaedrus, the legal expert Pausanias, the physician Eryximachus, the comic playwright Aristophanes, and the tragic poet Agathon—each by turn celebrates different aspects of love before Socrates proposes not to praise love but to tell the truth about it. In the final speech, the politician and libertine Alcibiades argues that Socrates himself is the epitome of love. Deftly capturing the essence and spirit of Plato’s masterpiece, How to Talk about Love makes the Symposium more accessible and enjoyable than ever before.

作者简介

Armand D'Angour 是牛津大学耶稣学院的古典学教授。他是《如何创新：创造性思维的古代指南》（普林斯顿大学）、《恋爱中的苏格拉底》和《希腊人和新人》的编辑和翻译。

Armand D'Angour is professor of University of Oxford. He is the editor and translator of How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking (Princeton), Socrates in Love, and The Greeks and the New.