Love According to Plato “What is love?” This question‚ while seemingly simple‚ is very complex. To many people love is special. Love plays a countless number of roles‚ both positive and negative‚ for each and every person. Therefore‚ everyone at some point in their lives has experienced love. It is something that we all long for‚ thereby making it something that all humans have in common. Each person’s experience is different which makes it hard for anyone to find the right words to express this
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Throughout the course of the speech‚ Socrates describes love based upon an interaction with a woman named Diotima. After explaining to Socrates that good and bad and beautiful and ugly are more of a grey concept as opposed to a clear cut concept‚ she tells Socrates that love is a “great spirit” whose purpose is to fill the unknown space between humans and gods. Diotima then tells Socrates of the origin of Love‚ following Aphrodite’s birth‚ and how it relates to Love’s parents‚ the Penia‚ the embodiment
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“Love is the desire to have the good forever.†Diotima continues with saying that “every type of desire for good things or happiness is what constitutes ‘powerful and treacherous love’â€Â. Diotima describes love as something that can be obtained through enthusiasm when it is only directed at one thing at a time. However‚ she also describes love as a longing for immortality‚ in that the closest mortals can come to being permanently alive and immortal is through reproduction
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Diotima‚ Socrates’ great teacher from the Symposium‚ a work by Plato was one of the most influential women thinkers of all time‚ whether she was a real person or a literary fictional character. She related to Socrates the theory of love that he described to the partygoers at Agathon’s banquet‚ a celebration of Agathon’s victory at the competition of Dionysis in Athens and of Eros. Before we search for the idea of why Diotima is a woman‚ we should first discuss a little about her. We know that
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In literary texts‚ Diotima‚ the “teacher” of Socrates in the Symposium‚ is often presented as a Beatrice-like figure which “inspires” creative men and guides them as a symbolic muse. However‚ in the immediate context of the speech of Socrates in the Symposium‚ Diotima was not a muse or an erotic-spiritual guide; she was a wise woman and priestess who taught Socrates the mysteries of love (Plato 31-34). The present paper calls for an adequate appreciation of Diotima’s status as a teacher‚ and - drawing
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Short Paper #1 Diotima Plato’s Symposium presents an ironic twist of society’s respect towards individuals on the basis of gender and intellect. The dialogue opens with the gathering of respected men over the discussion of Eros at a symposium. The overall tone exuded by the male figures throughout the dialogue displayed a sign of superiority over females through certain mediums in their encomium. Such is not the case with the speech delivered by the upmost respected scholar of his time‚ Socrates
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Straight from his introduction with‚ “Good evening‚ gentleman. I’m plastered‚” (Symposium 213 A) it appears‚ as this speech will be a random comedic interlude to distract from the ideas of the form that had just come about in the end of The Speech of Diotima. However‚ there is an underlying sense of tragedy and the ruin of self behind Alcibiades stories. Alcibiades is completely transformed by Socrates words‚ “If I were to describe for you what an extraordinary effect his words have always had on me
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He pretends to know what women think and feel‚ as he uses Diotima‚ a woman that he created to discuss the male sexual experience. In Halperin’s Why Is Diotima a Woman? the way in which Plato takes the female experience and makes it his own is discussed. “To turn “pregnancy” into a mere image of (male) spiritual labor‚ just as Socrates’s male voice at once embodies
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In book Plato’s Symposium Diotima defines the form of beauty as something eternal and unchangeable. I will explain Diotima’s definition of form of beauty and then show how is it different from the beautiful thing. Diotima defines the form of beauty as the form that exists independently of other objects‚ as something eternal and as an absolute term. The form of beauty exists independently of other objects for various reasons. For example‚ as the form of the round exists independently from the round
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Purpose Austen is a gifted satirist‚ who uses ridicule‚ mockery and ironic humour to condemn social vices (character flaws). Snobbery‚ selfishness and slander are subtly rebuked‚ and virtue‚ morality and sincerity condoned instead. The novel‚ however‚ does not become a moral tract for comedy is used to demonstrate that personal attributes such as curtesy‚ generosity of spirit and integrity are recognised as the true signs of gentility. Unattractive (personality‚ etc - not physically) individuals
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