When we use the word “Eros” today, we often invoke assumptions shaped more by psychoanalysis than by the ancient Greek god of love. Psychoanalytic thinkers have long been drawn to Plato’s Symposium.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper gives a new interpretation of the central section of Plato's Symposium (199d-212a). According to this interpretation, the term ...

Description: What draws us to politics? Is political ambition an extension or a betrayal of the love of other human beings? What is the relationship between the ordering of our loves and public order?

Scholars have recently argued that in the Symposium Plato is critical of Socrates and falls closer than his philosophic spokesman to the side of poetry in the old quarrel between philosophy and poetry ...

All of Plato's Symposium will be read in Greek, with related Platonic texts read in English. Classes will include close translation and reports on special topics. Emphasis will be on combining an ...

EASTON — Forrest Hansen will use the round table approach to examining and discussing selections from one of Plato’s most well-known dialogues, “Symposium,” sometimes titled “The Drinking Party,” in a ...