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Diotima prophetess, teacher of Socrates, speaks of an ideal love. [Gk. Lit.: Plato Symposium in Brewer Handbook] See : Love, Virtuous Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | 15pm, Sat 10am to 3pm (library) QUATUOR DIOTIMA [French string quartet, playing romantic and classical compositions] Sofia, June 21; Varna, June 23; Plovdiv, June 25 MARDIS DU CINEMA Mahaleo [film by Marie-Clemence et Cesar Paes (2005, 100'); with English subtitles] June 23, 7pm FESTIVAL CLEF D'OR [French song competition, open to all interested under 30 years old **in Plovdiv; visit afbg. For example, the distinction Plato makes in the dialogue Symposium between crude or vulgar eros and heavenly or spiritual eros, first mentioned by Pausanias (who was willing, in Freud's words [see epigraph], to "honor even an inferior object") and embellished by the priestess Diotima (who was not willing), encourages us to relinquish sexual acts in personal relationships and focus, instead, on the moral and intellectual improvement of ourselves and our partners. Plato first used this symbol of the In-Between in The Symposium when Socrates asks Diotima whether Eros, the psychic force that drives the soul to seek the divine, is a mortal or an immortal, and she replies, using the preposition metaxy, that Eros is neither but instead is in tension "between" them, partaking of both but not fully identifiable with either. |
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