Speeches in Symposium by Plato
After reading the Symposium, think about one of the following questions and write up a two-page summary of your thoughts. In class on Wednesday, September 11th, you will exchange papers with others who wrote on the same question and make comments on each other’s papers. Then you will plan an online debate in which you find your disagreements and attempt to work through them. There must be areas of disagreement. If you’re not saying anything it’s possible to disagree with, then you’re not saying anything substantive. If you happen all to have made exactly the same controversial statements, then find areas of disagreement. These disagreements don’t have to be anything you’re willing to fight over (and I really hope they’re not), and they don’t have to speak to the core of your being (though I kind of hope they do), but they do have to be real disagreements.
1. What does the dramatic action of the Symposium show about how knowledge is acquired and transmitted?
2. What philosophical point(s) is Plato trying to make in placing the speeches in the order he does?
3. Does Pausanias get love basically right?
4. What is the point of Aristophanes’ myth? Is he right about love?
5. Is Diotima right about the purpose of love?
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