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Where was Plato born?

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Athens

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What were Plato’s dates?

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427 BC - 347 BC

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What is the Symposium?

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Drinking party in Athens 416 BC

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What does Phaedrus call love?

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Love is the path to virtue, the oldest of gods

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What love is Phaedrus speaking of?

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Love in homoerotic relationships between an erastes + eromanos

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Who is the erastes + eromanos?

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Erastes is adult male
Eromanos is prepubescent boy

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What does Phaedrus say people in relationships are driven to do?

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Do well in front of each other - they don’t want to appear weak

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What example does Phaedrus give?

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In an army, lovers would rather die in front of each other than give up + show cowardice

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What does Pausanias split love to?

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Pandemian Eros
Uranian Eros

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What is Pandemian Eros?

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Common love - physical

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What is Uranian Eros?

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Heavenly love - love of the intellect

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What does Pausanias say about Pandemian Eros?

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Desire for women as well as boys

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How does Pausanias describe women?

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“The most unintelligent people imaginable”

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What does Eryximachus say about love?

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More scientific, love is a human manifestation of a universal phenomenon

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Where does Eryximachus say love can be found?

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Love can be found in the heavens + throughout nature

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What does Eryximachus say love produces?

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Love produces harmony in many different aspects of life

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What story does Aristophanes tell?

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Origins of love

18
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What does Waterfield say about Plato + love?

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We may be attracted to beauty but our real goal is happiness

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What is Aristophanes’ story?

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Humans were spheres w 2 arms, faces, legs etc + there were 3 genders: female, male + androgynous
They grew in power + Zeus feared this so he split them in half

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What does Aristophanes say the split of humans led to?

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Humans are deprived of their other halves so roam the land searching for their missing partner
Females found females, males find males + androgynous find the opposite genders

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What does Agathon say about love?

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Love is young, beautiful etc
Love is desired bc it is beautiful

22
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Who taught Socrates about love?

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Diotima - an ‘expert’ on love

23
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How did Diotima encourage to see love?

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Love is neither ugly or attractive, divine or mortal
Love occupies a middle ground

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What did Diotima tell Socrates love is the child of?

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Love is the child of poverty + resource

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What does Diotima tell Socrates love is because of its birth?

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Love has elements of poverty + resource
He is poor + homeless; but a resourceful hunter who lays traps for the beautiful

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What does Diotima say love searches for?

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Love searches for the beauty it lacks; not just physically but goodness + truth

27
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What does Alcibiades call love?

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Love is the embodiment of Socrates himself

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What does Alcibiades say Socrates has?

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Socrates has knowledge + virtue _ bravery

29
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How is Common/Pandemian love characterised?

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“They love women as well as boys”
“Attracted to bodies rather than minds”
“They don’t care whether desires are prop satisfied or not”

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How is Heavently/Uranian love characterised?

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“Wholly male”
“Don’t have affairs w boys who are younger than the age at which intelligence starts forming”

31
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What does Aristophanes say ppl SHOULD do for love?

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Ppl would’ve built vast temples + altars in Love’s honour if they realised how powerful it was

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What does Aristophanes say ppl ACC do for love?

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Instead, he (love) gets none of this since theres no God who looks out for mankind’s interest more than love

33
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What does Diotima say all humans are? What does this mean?

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All humans are pregnant (have the capacity to create) in body + soul

34
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What does Diotima say is not possible?

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It’s not possible to procreate in what is ugly, bc procreating is in itself divine

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Why is procreation immortal?

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It will last forever in legacy etc

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What does Diotima say about animals?

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Animals will fight + die for their offspring bc everything mortal strives towards immortality
Having offspring live after you’re death is a form of immortality

37
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Where does Diotima say we see desire for immortality in humans?

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Desire for kleos - men go to extremes + risk lives to win glory so they’re remembered after death

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What does Diotima say about those pregnant in the soul?

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More concerned w things appropriate for the soul to conceive + give birth to; mainly wisdom

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What does Diotima say happens to ppl at a certain age if they’re pregnant in soul?

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They’ll search for beautiful souls/bodies to procreate w; contact w beauty gives them completion

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