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Page Number and Citation: 13. Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis: Unlock with LitCharts A +. These two rules must be combined (the one governing the love of boys and the one governing the love of wisdom and other kinds of virtue), to create the conditions in which it is right for a boy to gratify his lover.
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by Plato. Symposium by Plato Quotes and Analysis. If only there were a way to start a city or an army made up of lovers and the boys they love. Theirs would be the best possible system of society, for they would hold back from all that is shameful, and seek honor in each other’s eyes. Phaedrus, who speaks of courage, explains that people feel ...
The main purpose of love, then, is to produce virtue, and love pursed for any other means is wrong, regardless of the consequence. A loved one who gratifies his lover in the hopes of gaining virtue is partaking in Heavenly Love, while gratification given for any other reason is simply Common Love. The question of whether and how virtue can be ...
The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον, Greek pronunciation: [sympósi̯on], romanized: Sympósion, lit. 'Drinking Party') is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, dated c. 385 – 370 BC. [1][2] It depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous speeches given by a group of notable Athenian men attending a banquet. The men include the ...
Socrates deduces that this means that Love is not beautiful, to which Agathon agrees, taking back what he stated earlier. Socrates adds that good things are beautiful, and if Love needs beautiful things and good things are beautiful, Love needs good things too. Analysis. Agathon talks about what love is, rather than what it does.
Summary: Book 3, Part 1 (386a-412b) Socrates continues to discuss the content of stories that can be told to the guardians, moving on to stories about heroes. The most important function of this class of stories is to immunize the young guardians against a fear of death. Heroes must never be presented as fearing death or as preferring slavery ...
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In his youth Plato wanted to become a playwright, but in his late teens or early twenties he heard Socrates teaching in the marketplace and decided to devote his life to philosophy. Plato continued to study under Socrates until the age of 28, when, in 399 B.C., the older philosopher was tried and executed for impiety.
