Socrates and Alcibiades in the "Symposium"

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To answer this question, consider Plato's sexual role in giving Socrates and Arsibia at the seminar. Alcibiades is one of the most attractive and attractive young people in Athens. He also conveyed his beauty to the present symposium (217a). Unlike the young Plato (Letter VII, 324b), but to a broader extent, Alcibiades is also keen on political life and shows incredible hope in this regard. Now, Alcibiades was the best captor of Athens this time, but he chose to offer himself to Socrates. Socrates also expressed his love for the ideal Alcibiades (on this special night, and more than twice in Plato's other dialogue). Now, people expect naturally older Socrates to play the role of lovers and Alcibiades in this relationship.

Plato's seminar consisted of six speech by Eros and added the praise of Socrates' Alcibiad. In these speech Socrates' speech is the most important in philosophy. Indeed, this speech was given as a report on Diotima's idea of ​​Eros, but "she is twice as much as Platonic Socrates" and we see her as a Socrates theory in this dialogue. God's love is claimed to be wise, ignorant, beautiful, ugly (good and evil), human being and immortal mediator 3. And our dialogue has three goals. The first one of them

In the seminar as four episodes of epidecis, and closely related to Alcibiades, there are (4 "sudden") repeats. Alcibiades arrived at the house of Agathon (212c6), Socrates appeared in the life of Alcibiades (213c1), exaiphnês, an outbreak of ardent crowd (223b2-6). Suddenly in each case there is a candidate for love. The beauty of the philosopher's love itself, Alcibiades of Socrates, and Socrates are Alviades. As it is "cônolpôn" of the crowd of Albibiades in the cave, not Socrates, for pampollous they are the object of the success of the fight against Socrates