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Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 6:00 PMA staged reading of Plato's Socratic dialogue, Symposium, followed by a robust conversation of our own.
Star of the Sea parish gymnasium (top floor), 345 8th Avenue, San Francisco. Admission is free. Register to attend here.
Featuring: Fr. Joseph Illo as Socrates himself.
Sponsored by the Benedict XVI Institute with Star of the Sea Parish.
For complete information on this and all Upcoming Events, visit the Benedict XVI Institute website.
"The Symposium is unquestionably the single most influential and important treatment of love in all of western literature. From neo-Platonism to medieval mysticism, from Augustine to Dante, from Ficino to Freud, its major insights (the identity of Beauty and Goodness; love as a set of progressive stages, successive rungs in a quest for personal immortality; love as a universal creative principle or sacred force) have shaped western ideas and attitudes at all levels of culture."
- David L. Simpson, De Paul University
Art: a detail from Raphael's painting School of Athens (1511), showing Plato (left) and his student Aristotle.