ENG150Y1 Lecture 5: Plato's Symposium

• School: UTSG
• Department: English
• Course: ENG150Y1
• Professor: Christopher Warley

Document Summary

Lecture 5: plato"s symposium (cid:862)lo(cid:448)e, or, (cid:858)i (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat plato(cid:859)s symposium (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s(cid:859)(cid:863: topic of love, topic of wanting to know. A representation of a representation of a thing: twice removed (cousin) of the truth. Plato is a (cid:862)(cid:272)le(cid:448)er (cid:271)o(cid:455)(cid:863) chris. Love is about sex: (cid:862)it(cid:859)s o(cid:374)l(cid:455) lo(cid:448)ers that are (cid:449)illi(cid:374)g to die for so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e else(cid:863) The inferior are attracted to women: the ancient greeks were gay because women are dumb. Love is not just social organisation blah blah, its goal is to be happy. Zeus cut up humans (male-male, male-female, female-female, male-male-female, male-female-female. Important: three genders male, female, endogenous (both male and female) combinations), sexuality and attraction based on which were originally cut up. Falli(cid:374)g i(cid:374) lo(cid:448)e i(cid:373)plies (cid:862)(cid:449)hole(cid:374)ess,(cid:863) (cid:272)o(cid:373)pleti(cid:374)g the (cid:272)ut up e(cid:374)tities. Love is a history of that which one cannot have: eros: want. Love means desire and desire means lack: one does not have what one wants, i lack it.