Plato's Symposium
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Plato's Dialogue on Socrates
i think there's quite a lot of play in this dialogue over the fact that Socrates becomes this supremely desirable object even though he's notoriously ugly and an older male snubnosed and ugly. At the start of the dialogue there are lots of Socrates's associates running around trying to remember his every word indeed. i think that's part of this jostling activity that people are really trying to make sure that they get closest to the most beautiful and wisest person at the dinner party which is either Socrates or Agathon depending on why do you think that Plato wrapped it around in this informal fictionalized way to make it more digestible to make it more fun what did it
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