RELIGST 3Y03 Chapter Notes -Agathon, Eryximachus, Weak Interaction

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 3Y03
• Professor: Z Planinc

Document Summary

Phaedrus and pausanius are the first two to make speeches about eros. He was so mesmerized by this symposium that he memorized it and would tell people. He told his friend apollodorus, who told the person who wrote this symposium for us. Back to their speeches, they"re talking about the god eros and making stuff up about him. They"re using their own imagination to make it expressive. When you see a beautiful body it suggests there"s something that animates it that"s beautiful (your souls- psyche). People reveal who they are when they"re talking about love. It"s always the lover doing the extreme things and gestures, not the beloved. The beloved knows they have power over you, and so do you but you can"t do anything about it. Each speech about love reveals what they truly think about it. The professor referred to this as one-way sex .