Tag: Symposium

Diotima’s “Ladder of Love” in Plato’s Symposium (Seminar 2024 Readings 4)

May 12, 2024

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Between Cave and Clean Air

September 29, 2019

Do you discern the patience, the love, that Socrates felt for the damned? When homely, old, but infinitely wiser and hence more beautiful Socrates told Alcibiades he could lie beside him and on the other side Agathon could lie, did he exercise the utmost in self-control for the sake of Love, able to love them both while not even being capable of being pulled by either one of them into the chained space of the cave? … More Between Cave and Clean Air