Similar desire, inasmuch as procreation is the one means by which racial immortalityĬan be secured. Possessor is a necessary condition of possession while the latter also involves a The beautiful”? The former conception involves a desire for abidingĮxistence, in other words for immortality, inasmuch as the existence of the Of the good” and Eros defined as “the desire for procreation in Is the link between Eros defined as “the desire for the abiding possession Precisely, these different determinations of Eros are related to one another. Of parental love towards both physical and mental ( φιλοτιμία) offspring.īut when we arrive at this point, the question suggests itself as to how, more Immortality-the impulse displayed alike by animals and by men, the ground Striving after the everlasting possession of happiness. Marked contrast to the Eros of conventional poetry and art, the divine Eros ofĮros is defined as Desire and as Daemon and, in the next place, its potency 1 is shown to lie in the And in all its features the Eros of Socrates and Diotima stands in Which lacks its object, and rich, with the vigour with which Desire strives after Eros is at once poor, with the poverty of Desire In which his conflicting attributes as a δαίμων-a being midway between gods and men-areĪccounted for by his parentage. Is, in fact, an object-lesson in method, an assertion of the Platonic principle thatĭialectic must form the basis of rhetoric, and that argument founded on untestedī The speech proper begins with a mythological derivation of Eros, Preliminary analysis of the meaning of the name serves, at the start, toĭifferentiate his treatment of the theme from that of all the preceding speakers: it Socrates refuses to embark on an eulogistic description of Eros without this And the object of this Desire is the beautiful ( τὸ καλόν), as had been asserted by Agathon (201 A-B). The notion of Eros, it is shown, isĮquivalent to that of Desire ( ἔρως= τὸ ἐπιθυμοῦν) -a quality, notĪ person. Popular misconceptions of the nature of Eros. (A) The substance and form of Socrates' λόγοι.Ī The encomium proper is preceded by a preliminary dialecticalĭiscussion with Agathon, the object of which is to clear the ground of some In form and content, as wellĪs in extent, it holds the highest place, although to its speaker is assigned the Importance of his encomium as the climax of the series. Is no mere accident, but artistically contrived in order to indicate the relative To Socrates it falls to deliver the last of the encomia on Eros.
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