plato love + desire

Question 1

Which character does Plato use in Phaedrus?

Answer 1

Socrates

Question 2

What idea does Plato, through the character Socrates offer in Phaedrus?

Answer 2

The idea that sexual desire urges the soul to grow wings + take flight

Question 3

What does Plato compare desire to?

Answer 3

Fire

Question 4

What does Goldhill say about self control?

Answer 4

Proper love is about self control

Question 5

What does Plato say about the difference between friendship, love + desire?

Answer 5

Friendship is affection for someone w whom we have smth in common
Desire is specifically physical
Love is the ‘intense’ feeling for friendship

Question 6

What does Goldhill say about sexual love?

Answer 6

Sexual love exposes human fragility

Question 7

What does Plato stress the importance of controlling? Where does he say this?

Answer 7

In the republic, moderation of food + desire

Question 8

What does Plato compare immoderate love to? Where?

Answer 8

In the Republic, immoderate love is behaviour of the extreme tyrant

Question 9

What are desires compared to in Phaedo?

Answer 9

Desires are compared to nails hammered into the soul

Question 10

What does Alcibiades compare Socrates’ restraint to in the Symposium?

Answer 10

Endurance on military campaign

Question 11

What does Plato state concerns of in Laws?

Answer 11

If society was relaxed where men + women could spend time together, there would need to be more surveillance of them to stop them from fulfilling desire

Question 12

Where is the horse + chariot analogy shown?

Answer 12

Phaedrus

Question 13

What is said about the horse + chariot analogy?

Answer 13

Socrates says the black horse reps instinctive desire + the white horse is moderation
A charioteer has the job of searing the 2 horses who naturally oppose each other

Question 14

What does Plato say about homoerotic relationships in Laws?

Answer 14

Unnatural - the practice originally arose bc of the failure to control desire

Question 15

Who say sexual love exposes human fragility?

Answer 15

Goldhill

Question 16

What does Aristophanes say about sex in the Symposium?

Answer 16

The symposium is important for procreation but allows people to relax

Question 17

Why does Plato say desire should be controlled in the Republic?

Answer 17

It’s in everybody’s best interest to be moderate + self controlled

Question 18

What does Plato compare immoderate love to? Where is this?

Answer 18

In the Republic; immoderate love is behaviour of an extreme tyrant

Question 19

What does Plato say about dreaming in the Republic?

Answer 19

Everyone experiences desires in their dreams, but our rational self can control these desires when we wake

Question 20

What did Socrates say in Phaedo?

Answer 20

Socrates’ last words were that the true philosopher can rise above desires + use reason to make choices

Question 21

What does Eryximachus say in the Symposium about desire?

Answer 21

‘Moderate love’ is healthy
‘The brutal love’ is sick

Question 22

How does Diotima refer to desire?

Answer 22

A creative search for immortality

Question 23

What concern was expressed in Laws?

Answer 23

If society wasn’t so prude-ish in how much time men + women spent tog, more surveillance would be needed to stop them having sex

Question 24

Who in the symposium suggests that pederastic relationships could benefit the state?

Answer 24

Pausanias, Eryximachus, Phaedrus + Alcibiades

Question 25

What does Diotima say to Socrates about homoerotic relationships?

Answer 25

They can produce ideas + virtue
This bond is stronger than the bond which produces children

Question 26

What does Plato seem to think about homoerotic relationships?

Answer 26

You should be careful when picking a partner to enter a homoerotic relationship

Question 27

What does Plato cover in Lysis?

Answer 27

The differences between friendship + love between men; thinks about which should come first

Question 28

What does Plato suggest in Phaedrus?

Answer 28

Plato suggests that friendship should be before a relationship

Question 29

What does Plato discuss in Laws?

Answer 29

Legalisation against homoerotic relationships + prostitution

Question 30

How does Plato describe homoerotic relationships in Laws?

Answer 30

Homoerotic relationships are unnatural; homoerotic practices originally arose bc of the failure to control desire

Question 31

What does the Symposium say homoerotic relationships encourage?

Answer 31

Encourages each partner to behave in an admiral way in front of each other

Question 32

What was the ascent that Diotima described?

Answer 32

Philosophers develop their thinking about love until they were able to identify what true beauty in life is.
+ involved moderation of desire

Question 33

What does Plato say about animals?

Answer 33

The offspring animals create through eros are physical + therefore lesser, not immortal
Philosophers create immortal offspring in the form of ideas through pederastic relationships

Question 34

What is Plato’s pederasty about?

Answer 34

Sharing philosophical ideas, ‘giving birth’ is smth done through the mind to bring forth ideas

Question 35

What is said in Plato’s Lysis that suggests selfishness?

Answer 35

Socrates tells Lysis that ppl will only love him if he’s useful to them (contrasts to Seneca’s selfless views)