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I just finished Symposium by Plato, after reading a few of Plato's other works.
I can't get over how talented a writer he was. I was blown away by how we wove philosophy into literature in such a delightful story. It was also interesting to learn some Greek history along the way (mainly about homosexuality in their culture), and I've really grown to like Socrates a lot, at least as a character if anything else.
Are there any other philosophers who were as good as Plato in merging philosophy with literature? Of course people like Dostoevsky get thrown into that sort of pile because their works have a heavy philosophical component, but I'm thinking of something further towards philosophy like the dialogues of Plato.
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>>9611104
>mainly about homosexuality
DROPPED
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>>9611107
But Plato says there's nothing wrong with some homsex as long as the bottom is learning something from the top.
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>>9611104
I mean, you nailed one of the other big ones with Dostoevsky. I'd also recommend Tolstoy, Montaigne, and Kierkegaard, although I wouldn't call the last two "literature" writers in the same sense you mean it. They're more anecdotal.
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>>9611104
Boipussy for life.
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