The Symposium/The Republic Flashcards by Gail I

(S. lecture) cultural understanding: the ability to write analytically about

pieces of literature and art

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(S. lecture) novel developed as a new form of … It also revolved around the …
structure to desires evident in a marriage plot

individualism; marriage plot

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(S. lecture) In the Symposium, they discuss … (the god of …) and praise him

Eros; love

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(S. lecture) Phaedras praises Eros as an …

elder

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(S. lecture) Pausanias states that there is … and … love. There are two Eroses. Ultimately honorable love favors ..

honorable; dishonorable; virtue

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(S. lecture) Erixymachus views love as … He mainly discusses the … and … view of love, which avoids … According to him, medicine creates .. in the human body

present in everything; physical; medical; disease; harmony

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(S. lecture) Aristophanes presents the strange, humorous story about how humans were … with … feet and hands and were split apart because of their ..

round; four; insolent behavior

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(S. lecture) Agathon revises the approach of praise toward Eros, first praising his … and then his … He disagrees with Phaedras and says that Eros is the … god. He defines Eros as … and … Love entails the virtues of …, …, …, and …

nature; acts; youngest; beautiful; good; justice; moderation; bravery; wisdom

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(S. lecture) Through a series of questions Socrates tells Agathon that Eros is actually not … and is not …

beautiful; good

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(S. lecture) Socrates recounts his discussion with … Love was apparently born to … and … which is why he has a very median nature

Diotima; resource; poverty

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(S. lecture) Socrates refutes aspects of the other’s speeches. Love is apparently seeking … and …, which is achieved through finding love of ..

goodness; immortality; wisdom

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(S. lecture) Alciabiades is the drunk guy who loves Socrates. He is to give a speech praising Socrates. Ultimately, his function is to emphasize Socrates’s extreme …

self control

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(S. lecture) Dialogues allow for one’s position to be …, in that it places pressure upon the …

refined; previous argument

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(S. lecture) Dialogues allow for the refining of positions through … and can improve understanding via the presentation of …

argumentation; different positions

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(S. lecture) philosophical method is to teach that you know

very little

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(S. lecture) The Symposium is a … dialogue

platonic

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(S. lecture) …./…/…/the … are all expressed within the Symposium

body; beauty; forms; good

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(S. lecture) core of the platonic theory? Will be related to …/…/…, etc

body; beauty; forms

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(S. lecture) platonic ladder: you first appreciate …, which is …, and then begin to appreciate … in general, as a …, and then you learn to recognize … and the …

slowly, you leave the … behind
Christian idea that body is … is a platonic notion

one body; corporeal; beauty in general; form; beauty; good; body; dirty

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(S. lecture) form entails the idea that you can generate an image of something because there is a … of it somewhere, and as you gain an understanding of it you come closer to envisioning that

perfect form

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(S. lecture) the question of reception: How Plato has been received … How his ideas, …/… understood, or even if it was … as he intended, are actually manifested in lit, art, religious theology, general …, poetry and other texts, etc.

historically; incorrectly; correctly; interpreted; human attitude

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(S. lecture) general attitude influences our

interpretation

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(S. lecture) form: … and … (more broadly)

genre; style

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(S. lecture) genre can act as an aspect of …

dialogues occur within other …

style; genres

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(S. lecture) all dialogue takes place within a ..., the first of which is Apollodorus's meeting with the ..., asking about this conversation which occurred in the past--transmission of a ... Within this frame is the story of the .... which follows the prologue

frame; unknown man; decades' old conversation; symposium

(S. lecture) .../... which are in praise of a particular topic, in this case, the god of love (Eros/Cupid) term ... is derived from Eros

eulogies; encomia; erotic

(S. lecture) Symposium structure: 3 speeches- ..., ..., ... 2 speeches by Agathon and Aristophanes- Agathon represents the ... attitude, Aristophanes represents the ... attitude Exchange between ... and ..., which offers the theories about the .. and the ... and the .., characteristically .... Alcibiades

Phaedrus; Pausanias; Erixymachus; tragic; comedic; Diotima; Socrates; forms; good; beautiful; platonic

(S. lecture) Symposium is regarded as one of Plato's most ... books

homoerotic

(S. lecture) Socratic irony: pretending to ... the argument and then ... it out

accept; hollowing

(S. lecture) Ex. of Socratic irony: Socrates praises ..'s speech, acting as if he were dumbstruck with admiration, but proceeds to refute his entire argument

Agathon's

(S. lecture) Socrates tells Agathon that he's ... language, but his argument is ultimately ..., that there is no real ... to what he's saying (all .., no ..., hidden in a ....)

manipulating; hollow; content; show; substance; compliment

(S. lecture) Socratic irony is a compliment that's actually an ... rhetorical strategy: taking an opponent's argument, whittling it down, and making ... through ... their argument --> reflects the ...

insult; progress; destroying; dialogue form

(S. lecture) Alcibiades proves that Socrates has tremendous self-control, adding a ... to Socrates's argument

counterpoint

(S. lecture) Diotima tells Socrates that the love one body leads to ...: producing something .. in response to something ... (in response to ...)

beautiful discourses; intellectual; sexual; male beauty

(S. lecture) in the text, reproduction acts as a metaphor to ...

reproduce beauty

(S. lecture) individual proceeds to ..., ... in the ...

beauty of form; beauty; abstract

(S. lecture) social construction of ... and ... women participate in the .. men had homosexual affairs and married merely to have children

masculinity; femininity; patriarchy

(S. lecture) ... of beauty represents youth

bloom

(S. lecture) structure of ..

violence

(S. lecture) erotic attraction/desire being likened to ... represents desire as something ... gives rise to notion that the body should be .. ... of the body

small-minded slavery; toxic; resisted; hatred

(S. lecture) idealized notion of body and mind becomes violent underpinning for how we

think about humanity

(R. lecture) allegory: a story poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a ..., typically a ... or ... one

hidden meaning; moral; political

(R. lecture) humans are like men in a ..., ..., who don't actually see ...

cave; trapped; reality

(R. lecture) allegory of the cave is foundation for ... and non-... thinking alike

western; western

(R. lecture) senses can't give us an accurate measure of

size

(R. lecture) what we perceive through our senses is ..., sight doesn't always show you what exactly is ...

relative; there

(R. lecture) senses are deceptive because of their lack of ... and because the body is ...

precision; bad

(R. lecture) plato is ...: philosophers are better in his view

intellectually elitist

(R. lecture) in the Republic, theory of form occurs in a different context: ' a ... space and who gets to ..

democratic; rule it

(R. lecture) ... rulers of the city | allegory of the cave is fundamental to their education and how they would be selected

guardians

(R. lecture) the republic establishes what the ideal ... will be like and who the right kind of ... for that space are, encompasses a theory of ...

democratic space; rulers; human education

(R. lecture) the republic is a theory of

state

(R. lecture) allegory of the cave should enable us to understand the ..., which is that we are trapped in this world, and, as bodily creatures, we cannot perceive the reality of the ... as a whole

human condition; universe

(R. lecture) we assume that we know things, but these are only a ... of the truth

shadow

(R. lecture) fire: ...-made it ... emphasizes how limited people's ... is and how ... they are the thing we perceive as reality is as distorted as a ... in ....

man; magnifies; knowledge; removed from reality; shadow; firelight

(R. lecture) the cave is what it means to be ... in the world

alive

(R. lecture) our first way of acquiring knowledge is through the ..., which is inadequate for understanding the ... about the world. This is the condition we must ..., which is achieved through overcoming our ...

senses; complete truth; overcome; senses

(R. lecture) ... is part of what we need to do to remove ourselves from the cave's ...

giving up on things; shackles

(R. lecture) Ascetic: someone who gives up the ... of the ... and .., practicing severe ...

pleasures; body; senses; self-discipline

(R. lecture) personification of the law which functions as a ...: implies that law has capacity to .., like a human being it's a metaphor bc it's talking about how the law ...--> metaphor for the ... of how the law can ... law produces ...

metaphor; reproduce; works; nature; work; citizenry

(R. lecture) law can shape ..., by giving sense that something is .../... producing certain ... distortion of ... and ..., which can follow law

morality; right; wrong; attitudes; legality; morality

(R. lecture) when humans come together to create a law, that law has a great effect on

what we think

Dialectic: enabled by ... form; This process causes you to constantly test your own ... and to test them against other people's ... Through argument, you ... your position and move closer toward the truth.

dialogue; assumptions; claims; refine

allegory of the cave: about the limitations of ... foundation which is put in place so that you learn what you ..., shake up foundation of knowledge so that Socrates can put something else in its place humans deceived by

human knowledge; don't know; senses

republic: notion of the ... a theory of what a ... should be within this is the notion of what the rulers of what the rulers should be laying the foundation for the idea of how ..., and how ... they know

guardians; state; human beings; little

hatred of the body can be linked to the ... of the body

vulnerability

intelligible order: can only be perceived by ... "shunning reliance on ...." discourse of ..., not through senses ... and ... would be considered not real in The Republic method to achieve the peak of intellect resembles ...

intellect; sense perceptions; reason; experimentation; data; meditation