Learning through Love: A Lover’s Initiation in the Symposium

In the Symposium of Plato, Socrates reports that Diotima once described to him a process of initiation by which a lover rises from desiring one beautiful body to catching sight of what seems to be the Platonic form of beauty. Scholars have debated whether the lover is to make this ascent by a ratio...

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Main Author: Paul Woodruff
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2023-05-01
Series:Revista de Filosofia Antiga
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Online Access:https://www.revistas.usp.br/filosofiaantiga/article/view/212447