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Download: A 116k text-only version is available for download. Symposium. By Plato. Written 360 B.C.E. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Persons of the Dialogue. APOLLODORUS, who repeats to his companion the dialogue which he had heard from Aristodemus, and had already once narrated to Glaucon. PHAEDRUS.
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Socrates Questions Agathon. Socrates praises Agathon’s speech once more, saying he will also explore the questions of the qualities of Love himself. He asks if Love is the love of nothing or something, to which Agathon answers the latter, and then Socrates says that Love desires that which loves it. They establish that Love desires what it ...
Nov 7, 2008 · INTRODUCTION. Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself knew. For in philosophy as in prophecy glimpses of the future may often be conveyed in words which could hardly have been understood or interpreted at the ...
Translated by Benjamin Jowett. ted, annotated, and compiled by Rhonda L. KelleyPlate 1: Anselm. Alcibiades (far left, drunk); Pausanias (behind Agathon); Agathon (centre); Socrates (bent head); Aristophanes (facing Socrates, black beard); Aristodemus (figure against wall behind Socrates) Table of Contents.
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In the Symposium, the philosopher Plato’s dialogue set in Athens in the fifth century B.C., a man named Apollodorus describes a dinner party to an unnamed friend, who’s eager to hear what was discussed by famed the teacher Socrates and the other guests about love. Though Apollodorus wasn’t there himself, he tells the story based on the ...
In Agathon's defense, however, we should note that the Greek word eros, which is also the name for the god of Love, can mean both interpersonal love and desire in a far broader sense of the word. The problem Agathon and others encounter is not one of misusing a certain word so much as not defining carefully enough the scope of the term they are using.
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Summary. Socrates continues his discussion of Love by restating an account given to him by a woman named Diotima. He claims that he once held the opinions expressed by Agathon and that Diotima convinced him he was mistaken through a series of questions similar to those Socrates has just asked Agathon. Thus, Socrates picks up where he left off ...
