What is love according to Plato? essays.
Plato on True Love Plato's account of true love is still the most subtle and beautiful there is. Posted Jun 23, 2012. SHARE. TWEET. EMAIL. MORE. SHARE. SHARE. WHATSAPP. SHARE (Article updated on.
Plato is most well-known for his theory on forms but I find Plato’s Theory of Knowledge behind his example of the cave and divided line fascinating. There are three main examples I want to focus on that can be used in describing Plato’s theory of knowledge: his allegory of The Cave (my favorite), his metaphor of the Divided Line and with some extra help from his theory on Forms.
Symposium is central in Plato’s philosophy, since it talks about Love and Ideas. Commentary on Plato Symposium. Socrates and Aristodemus will attend a banquet at Agathon, with Aristophanes, Appolodore, Pausanias and Eryximachus. The guests decide not to get drunk, but drinking a little and discuss about love.
An analysis of his doctrine on love in the Symposium and Phaedrus Introduction Love is a human fact, something that happens to humans; no one would deny that.
Love is in between mortal and immortal, in between beauty and ugliness, and in between wisdom and ignorance. To achieve it, one must complete Diotima’s “Ladder of Love,” to achieve its purpose of giving birth to true virtue, having seen Beauty. Not all accomplish this, but reproduction in body or soul achieve the purpose of Love as well.
In Plato's Symposium, a dinner party was held with the discussion of love as the main topic. Everyone was required to make a speech, an ode to Love, the spirit. The philosopher, Socrates gave his speech last, claiming that his speech was merely a repetition of what a wise woman named Diotima once told him.
The novel Phaedrus by Plato consists of a series of speeches that defines love as a discussion of the proper use of rhetoric. The novel includes discussions of the soul, madness, divine inspiration, and practice and mastery of an art of rhetoric.