The Plato's Conceptualization Of Love In The Symposium

How does Plato conceptualize love in The Symposium and how does it allow us to achieve good?

Authors

  • Daniela Jimena Acosta Narváez

Keywords:

Platonic love, the Idea of good, The Banquet or Symposium, World of Ideas, sensible world, intelligible world

Abstract

Love in philosophy can have many connotations, for Plato this implies a constant aspiration to the good, understood as the search to achieve the perfection of things, but what does he mean by reaching such perfection? In Platonic philosophy there is a division between the sensible and the intelligible world, one of these shown as the imperfect copy of the other, and only by ascending to this world of ideas is it possible to achieve the idea of Good. In The Symposium through dialectics the concepts of love are debated, what it implies and the weight it has within the Platonic philosophy and its Idea of Good.

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Published

2021-01-21

How to Cite

Acosta Narváez, D. J. (2021). The Plato’s Conceptualization Of Love In The Symposium: How does Plato conceptualize love in The Symposium and how does it allow us to achieve good?. BInvestigación, 1(2). Retrieved from https://revistas.uaa.mx/index.php/bi/article/view/2978

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No. 2 (2020): Revista BInvestigación

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