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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Symposium

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1.During a banquet a number of speeches praising the god Love are delivered ;
the first speech,by Phaedrus,makes the claim that :
"love between virtuous men and youth is of the highest type",
the chief motive to a noble life.
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2.Pausanias distinguishes between
A.common Love,which is of the body,and
B.heavenly Love,which is the LOVE OF VIRTUE AND PHILOSOPHY.
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3.Eryximachus the physician argues that :
"love is the principle of HARMONY which reconciles the hostile elements in the body".
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4.Aristophanes,satirizing physiological theories of love,maintains that
"the human body was originally round,having four arms,four feet,a head with two faces,..."
and that
"Zeus,to punish men for rebellion,split them in two ;
ever since that time,the halves have sought each other avidly ;
the desire to be reunited is love".
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5.Agathon praises Love as
"the most beautiful and youngest of the gods,possessed of all the virtues".
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6.Socrates explains how
"from a love of the beauty of physical objects one can pass to the apprehension of the nature of Beauty itself,the ideal,and thereby share Love's divinity".
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