Tag Archives: Plato

One of the things I’d noticed in Symposium, and that Phaedrus elaborates upon in his opening statements to Socrates in Phaedrus, is a further separation of form of love into lover and beloved.  This notion has become foreign to us … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Finished Plato’s Symposium and will be moving on to Phaedrus, but I know that I would like to eventually get the book form (I’ve been reading it online) as it seems to be wanting of a more continual thinking on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In the midst of a deep dinner discussion about the forms of love, I find this amusing bit: "Pausanias came to a pause-this is the balanced way in which I have been taught by the wise to speak; and Aristodemus … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, this is what I’ve decided on as my next classical reading, mainly because they’re short, and I’m just reading them online. It just seemed to make more sense to take this journey up through the centuries–though of course, the … Continue reading →