... There, he founded the Academy, which is said to be the first University in history. This school provided a comprehensive curriculum for those future scholars that would follow in Plato's path. The great philosopher, Plato wrote many dialogues, which can be defined as the parts of a literary or dramatic work that represents conversation. For him, dialogues were a part of his conception of philosophy ... memory of Socrates. His middle to late while still using Socrates in them reflected Plato's own philosophical development. These works include Gorgias (a consideration of several ethnical ...

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... has yet to be a one universal explanation of love and there has yet to be one who understands it's powers fully. As we see from Plato's Symposium, even the wisest of men in a time when the search for knowledge was seen as the pathway to enlightenment love was still a concept that was ... Soon Phaedrus concludes his oration and Pausanias steps up to deliver another set of guidelines for love. Pausanias concerns himself with a topic much like Plato's guidelines in the Ideal Republic where he stated that honorable and virtuous acts were only those that were applied to noble and just causes...

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... , something deeper than the author's main point, or something that can be found in a summary. In reading Horace's Satires and Epistles and Plato The Symposium, a very ironic discovery can be made. Socrates and Horace have apparently been granted authority by their immediate audience on their respective topics, however ... Horace ensures that the reader will notice and reflect on them. He does not put himself on a heavenly level, like Diotima in Plato's Symposium, but guarantees his readers that although he has knowledge of how to live a satisfying life and can administer advice on it; he...

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... group. The ideas these men put forward in describing the nature of something as powerful yet intangible as love are wonderful. The people in Plato's Symposium are truly great and wise men. They each have their particular viewpoints, based on their characters and professions. The physician and healer, Eryximachus, ... I know not any greater blessing to a young man who is beginning life than a virtuous lover, or to the lover, than a beloved youth. (Symposium, 20)" The moral value of this sentence is questionable. It basically condones, even promotes, homosexuality and the abuse of children...

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1 Eros, or love, is the topic for discussion in Plato's Symposium. In a series of speeches, men debate the superlative meaning of eros the entire night. Socrates concludes the night by giving what is thought to ... , with a woman (Diotima), in which Diotima, not Socrates, gives meaning to the word and concept of eros. This is ironic because from the beginning of the Symposium it is made explicitly clear that women are not wise enough to know and discuss eros. This is the first speech that the opinion of a woman is taken into ... it "fills us with togetherness and drains all of our divisiven...

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In "The Apology"," Plato claims that Socrates is the wisest man even if he doesn't believe that he is. Plato claims that, "he is not speaking of Socrates, he is only using my name by the way of illustration, as if he said, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, ... knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing"" (pg. 104, p. 9). This is strength to Plato's argument because he explains why Socrates is going around spreading his knowledge. Socrates is trying to find someone who is wiser than him but he has yet to find that ... on page 7, section 25, Freud claims, "We assume that human ins...

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... received a basic Greek education and learned his father's craft at a young age. 4. He married Xanthippe-"undesirable " and bore him three sons -Lamprocles, Sophroniscus and Menexenus. 5. Socrates' physical appearance according to Plato's Symposium- Short, stocky, snub nose and bulging eyes. (some writings are the opposite). 6. His own light brought to him in prison and there he drank hemlock poison at the age of ... ...

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