Plato and love: “In Socrates’ great speech in the Symposium, he teaches us that love entails becoming better than we are, remolding ourselves so that we may be worthy of the absolute ...

In her review of “ Plato Goes to China ” by Shadi Bartsch (Bookshelf, Feb. 27), Martha Bayles rightly defends Leo Strauss against the charge that the professor was an antidemocrat who would ...

Plato’s Symposium, written almost 25 centuries ago, is one of his two dialogues devoted directly to the theme of love (the other being the Phaedrus). In its pages, we find a poetic vision of the ...