Plato's Symposium Sparknotes

In the book,” Plato’s Symposium,” by Plato, who was a philosopher in Greece, he illustrates the dialectic discussion in a party at Agathon’s to celebrate his triumph of his first tragedy. In the Symposium; the guests Phaedrus, an Athenian aristocrat; Pausanias, the legal expert; Eryximachus, a physician; Aristophanes, eminent comic playwright; Agathon ,a tragic poet and host of the banquet; Socrates, eminent philosopher and Plato's teacher; and Alcibiades, a prominent Athenian statesman, orator and general; discuss their own versions and viewpoints to praise the god of love. First we have Phaedrus who starts to say that love is the most ancient of the gods and should be praise worthy, next we have Eryximachus who states that love affects everything
This also suggests in the symposium about love to the reader what Eryximachus thinks about love. Eryximachus states that.” I feel sure it’s from medicine, my own area of expertise, that I’ve from medicine, my own area of expertise, that I’ve realized how great and wonder a god Love is, and how his power extends to all aspects of human and divine life. I’ll begin with medicine, to give pride of place to this form of expertise. It’s inherent in the nature of bodies that they manifest these two kinds of love. It’s generally agreed that bodily health and disease are different states and dissimilar from each other. When things are dissimilar, the objects of their desire and love are dissimilar. Therefore, love is different in the case of healthy and diseased body.” In this passage it shows how Eryximachus sees love through the viewpoint of his profession and therefore he explains that love affects everything in the universe and that it is capable of helping people to find out what they love to do or the profession which they love to do like medicine. Next we have Socrates and his version of love through the viewpoint of
This also suggests in the symposium about to the reader to understand Socrates version of love through the viewpoints of Diotima. He states,” Because he the son of Resource and Poverty, Love’s situation is like this. First of all, he’s always poor; far from being sensitive and beautiful. As it commonly supposed, he tough, with hardened skin, without shoes or home. He always sleeps rough, on the ground, with no bed, lying in doorways and by roads in open air; sharing his mother’s nature, he always lives in a state of need. On the other hand, taking after his father, he schemes to get a hold of beautiful and good things. He’s brave, impetuous and intense; a formidable hunter, always weaving tricks; he desires knowledge and is resourceful in getting it; a lifelong lover of wisdom; clever at using magic, drugs and sophistry.” In this passage, it is shown how Socrates views the question of love as being part of both of poverty and recourse who is always in need and is brave in getting what he wants. Now conclude everything that these four speakers have stated about love, we have the conclusion to analyze the thoughts and viewpoints of the