Plato's Symposium
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Alcibiades and Eros - The Work Ends With a Tanting Puzzle
The work ends with a tantalizing puzzle so after Alcibiades a speech lots of drunken revellers disrupt the order of the evening so far. There's lots of drunkenness and people start nodding off but Socrates alert as ever is trying to persuade Aristophanes the comic poet and Agatha and the tragic poet that one and the same person should write both tragedy and comedy. According to Socrates love is not as Agatha had described this wonderful overflowing bountiful state where lovers are already in possession of all sorts of wonderful good things. In fact what happens according to Socrates in the experience of desire is that we're confronted with all sorts of things that we lack and yet we're very resourceful in
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