Plato's "Symposium"

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Plato's seminar What is the meaning of love? What is affection? How is love produced? No one can actually explain it, but for some reason it is understood. At the Plato seminar, a dinner party with a theme of love was held. Everyone is called on to give a speech, a song of love, and a spirit. Philosopher Socrates finally gave a speech, his speech was claimed that sage named Diotima was a mere repetition told him. - Background and contradiction Plato workshop of Phaedrus and Plato of Plato is a faithful student of Socrates, we recorded a lot of dialogue with the speech of Socrates. Occasionally Socrates and other participants in these conversations seem contradictory, or at least seem to confuse their argument. One of them is Plato's seminar and Plato's Phaedrus

At Plato's seminar Plato provided us with one of the most close-up and personal photos of Socrates. Socrates himself has never written a route we know; it is he (his character, his point of view, his biography), we know Plato's eyes and pen Pass through. Therefore, we can not know the accuracy or change of this account. - Plato's Seminar The metaphor of Plato is basically two worlds, the world world (the material world or the existence / existence world) and the world of knowledge (the world of knowledge / existence / the world of nature) is. This concept is the key to the background of the symposium "Love". It is worth noting that as speeches evolved through specific tasks they were parallel to the concept.