HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Sicilian Expedition, Agathon
31 Mar 2017
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Thats why homosexuality was a thing, boys liked other boys, girls liked other girls. She sort of has magical powers: diotima serves as a medium, a voice for expressing this relationship, diotima is able to repel disease from athens. Socrates speech: socrates" speech is framed as a conversation. Diotima is doing this through him: he positions himself as the young one who is learning from an older, wiser person, she sets the stage as having socrates see him as nothing extreme, young nor old, all medium. 2: in diotima"s story, love as parents, poverty and plenty. Monday, march 27, 2017: poverty impregnates herself on poros (plenty) while he was sleeping, she explained that males and females can get pregnant in the mind. " you give birth to an idea. Diotima gives us this idea of a ladder: once he had a physical love with his body, he realized that all bodies are the same.
