PHILOSOPHY: Diotima - The Philosopher of Love

A little look at Socrates Teacher, Diotima, from Plato's Symposium

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Education

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• philosophy
• reading
• plato
• symposium
• socrates
• diotima
• philosopher
• love
• humanities
• history
• social
• science

[cheriebibo]

interesting video -- didn't know about Diotima. i liked it. i liked the images, and you do have a nice voice.

[RomanPhilosopher]

nice voice...

yeah... okay...

[Ekilibrio]

Excellent!

[RomanPhilosopher]

ya know it! Thanks

[SurvivingTheHorizon]

@poetinasia Two other points are that the topic of the Symposium is to praise the god Eros. In order to break the convention- Socrates has Diotima change the conception of what love is, which in her view/Socrates view is not derived from a god. Second, Diotima's description of love is a description of Socrates himself- made even more explicit by Alcibiades' drunken speech eulogizing Socrates in the spirit of Diotima's speech. I agree Diotima is a literary device invented by Socrates

[sauroman1]

I don't know exact truth, but I in my opinion all these characters: Diotima, daemons, gods were actually extraterrestrials. I think so because Diotima was even more intelligent then Socrates himself. Also somehow Socrates blindly believed in only what "daemons" said.

[Tasheja]

Great video... interesting and informative :) Thanks!

[poetinasia]

Nice. I don't believe that there was a Diotima. Socrates was just trying to show the party goers that he too was naive and did not know what love was until he met this woman who enlightened him on the matter. If Socrates had just blurted out "You stupid assholes I am going to tell you the truth" it wouldn't have gone down very well. He had to be deferential didn't he

[littlesalvo000]

deeoteema that's how you must pronunce it,

[Jadabh2]

not for me

[pansgrove]

Really liked your voice in this one. I can see you making audio books in the future. Seriously, nice voice, good video, liked that autumn tree picture.