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Analysis. Alcibiades' speech serves primarily to show that Socrates exemplifies the qualities of the ideal lover alluded to in Diotima's speech. He seems completely aloof from physical pleasures, disdainful of Alcibiades' sexual advances, and seeks to lead Alcibiades and other youths through the ascent toward the Form of Beauty.
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The first five speeches contradicted each other and were reconciled in Diotima’s speech, but Alcibiades speech changes the topic of the conversation from praising Eros, to praising Socrates. While the topic changed and this speech is separate, Alcibiades’ speech unknowingly to him, illustrates the arguments Diotima made about Love by ...
Alcibiades notes here that Socrates was always persuading him to abandon politics and to concentrate on his ethical development, but that Alcibiades refused to listen. Thus, Plato renders Socrates blameless of anything Alcibiades may have done in the political arena. A summary of Section 11: 212c - 216c in Plato's The Symposium.
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A Study in Violets: Alcibiades in the Symposium. C. D. C. Reeve [ 1] Agathon’s drinking-party has reached its philosophical apogee in Socrates’ vivid, Diotima-inspired description of the ultimate object of all love and desire, the Platonic form of beauty—the beautiful itself. All of a sudden, there is a commotion and loud knocking.
Summary. Alcibiades begins his speech by reiterating his promise to tell the truth and inviting Socrates to interrupt if he says anything inaccurate. Socrates, he then goes on to say, is like a satyr: just as satyrs charm people by playing reed-pipes, Socrates puts people under the spell of his eloquence. Enraptured by this wisdom, Alcibiades ...
Download: A 116k text-only version is available for download . Symposium. By Plato. Written 360 B.C.E. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Persons of the Dialogue. APOLLODORUS, who repeats to his companion the dialogue which he had heard from Aristodemus, and had already once narrated to Glaucon. PHAEDRUS.
At best, dialogue can lead us toward the Forms, but we need some other kind of inspiration to know the Forms directly. A summary of Section 10: 210a - 212c in Plato's The Symposium. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Symposium and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for ...
