PHIL-105 FA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eryximachus, Agathon
28 Mar 2017
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Language and accounting for your words is a major part of plato"s writings and socrates" life. There is a social interpretation of the idea of love which changes how we interact with love itself and form our relationships. Symposium is taking place at a celebratory dinner party but we don"t actually know where it begins because it is just a story of a story on a walk. The beginning of the story itself is socrates meeting a friend on a walk while on the way to dinner. Apollodorus is a young follower of and possible lover of socrates who has held the story from. He establishes a lot of his meaning in life from his relationship of socrates. He says we are all worthless when compared to socrates. There is a connection between love and madness. The one who is an actual follower of socrates is a mad man. Philosophy isn"t all just cut and dry rationality.
