ASIGNMENT
1. Know how each speaker defines love
2. figure out how each speech improves on previous
3. What do all of the speeches have in common
4. How Diotimis Speech is different
- Phaedrus asserts that both gods and humans regard Love as great and awesome, for many reasons. In particular, Love is widely considered older than almost all the other gods, and has no parents.
- Pausanias points out that there are two kinds of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. First, there is Heavenly Aphrodite, the daughter of Uranus, with whom he associates "Heavenly Love." Second, there is Common Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus and Dione, who is considerably younger than Heavenly Aphrodite, and with whom he associates "Common Love."
- Love is neither good nor bad but what makes it is how
- Eryximachus adds to Pausanias' points on two kinds of loves but adds that not just humans but plants and animals. Not only medicine, but also athletics, agriculture, and music are all wholly governed by the god of Love. Eryximachus concludes that Love is ever-present and all-powerful in our lives, as it is the cause of all self-control, happiness, and justice, and it produces good actions.
- Aristophanes' speech comes in the form of a myth. And this explains why we try to find affection
- Agathon's speech is about the nature of the god.
- Socrates goes to tell what he perceives as the truth and proves Agathon wrong.
- Diotima's speech is different from the rest because he uses the socratic method on socrates
Good job, Robert.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Good sense for the speeches.
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