书名：The Symposium: Plato (Penguin Great Ideas)会饮篇 柏拉图-企鹅伟大的思想系列文学视野
作者：Plato
出版社名称：Penguin
出版时间：2005
语种：英语
ISBN：9780141023847
商品尺寸：11.2 x 1 x 18cm
包装：平装
页数：128（以实物为准）

本书收录《会饮篇》和《洞穴寓言》。《会饮篇》（或译作《飨宴篇》《宴话篇》）是柏拉图早期的一篇对话式作品，它描述了在一次宴会上，一群雅典男性对爱的本质的讨论。该作品以演讲和对话的形式写成，既有讽刺式的，也有认真的谈话。《洞穴寓言》选自《理想国》，柏拉图简明扼要地驳斥了“善即快乐”或“善即学问”的观点，却拒绝直接给出自己的看法，而是借用“洞穴寓言”来阐述他的观点，这是他shou次详细解释唯心主义。

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Plato's retelling of the discourses between Socrates and his friends on such subjects as love and desire, truth and illusion, spiritual transcendence and the qualities of a good ruler, profoundly affected the ways in which we view human relationships, society and leadership - and shaped the whole tradition of Western philosophy.

柏拉图（Plato，前427年—前347年），古希腊伟大的哲学家，也是全部西方哲学乃至整个西方文化zui伟大的哲学家和思想家之一。柏拉图和他的老师苏格拉底以及他的学生亚里士多德被并称为古希腊三大哲学家。柏拉图是西方客观唯心主义的创始人，他的哲学体系博大精深，一生作品很多，写下了许多哲学对话录，并且后来在雅典创办了著名的书院。

Plato (c.427-347 BC) stands with Socrates and Aristotle as one of the founders of the Western intellectual tradition. Inspired by Socrates' teaching, Plato sought a cure for the ills of society not in politics but in philosophy, and in the early fourth century BC he founded the Academy in Athens, the first permanent institution devoted to philosophical research and teaching. He wrote over twenty philosophical dialogues.