PHIL 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Penia
18 Feb 2016
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Diotima stresses to socrates that not everything must be spoken in absolutes. It does not have to be one thing or its opposite. This is quite different from the way socrates approaches concepts such as. Diotima points out, that in spite himself, socrates has denied that love (eros) is a god altogether. Love is neither moral nor immortal, but is a spirit, that falls somewhere between a god and being human. According to diotima, spirits serve as intermediaries between gods and humans, the gods never communicate directly with humans but through the medium of spirits. Love was conceived at a feast that was celebrating the birth of. Plenty (man) got intoxicated and decided to sleep in the garden of zeus. Poverty (woman) crept up on plenty and slept with him hoping that he would relive her lack of resources by having his child. Thus love became born, and because he is the child of poverty and.
