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This 4 page paper discusses the literary and narrative technique that Plato employs in his work, The Symposium. Examples and quotes cited from the text. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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offer questions for one to consider in their own journey toward self discovery. Various writers use various techniques in order to get their main messages across and Plato did not
differ in this. Plato loved to use a type of Platonic irony, pretending ignorance when great knowledge was present. This gradual shift of narrative, from ignorance to understanding typifies Platos
narrative voice. Plato uses this narrative structure and dramatic detail to offer hints and clues as to his philosophical message. Each gradual shift, from one character to the next, offers
one more piece of insight to the philosophical puzzle. In Platos Symposium, consider that the question up for debate is that of love. What is the purpose of love? Socrates
has asked. Platos Symposium tells the tale of a series of speeches given by three individuals on the topic of love. Several concepts of love are offered by the
speechmakers, but only one has the truest definition. When one reads the symposium it becomes obvious that Plato believes in a two tiered explanation of reality. He would seem to
be stating that there is a world of who we want to become and the world of who we are at the present. This idea can also be applied to
the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sense. And in contrast, the world
of who we want to be is the transcendent place of being. Phaedrus is the first to attempt to define love. He
states that love is "the most powerful [god] in helping men gain virtue and blessedness" (Plato 180B). The Greek god Eros, sometimes depicted as the son of love-goddess Aphrodite, is
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