![]() ![]() Eros then lacks beauty and does not possess it.Eros must be love of beauty and not of ugliness.Those who love do not have the object they love/desire.Īgathon has said ‘the gods made the world from a love of beautiful things for there was no love of ugliness’ so….One desires only what one does not have (one can desire the continuance into the future of what one already has though). ![]() ![]() Damning poor Agathon with faint praise, he claims ignorance for himself in the matter of eulogies – he doesn’t know how to make eulogies, only how to tell the truth! Being encouraged to go ahead with a truthful speech anyway, Socrates turns his attention to Agathon and uses him to display his method of leading students to knowledge through questioning. Socrates follows Agathon and begins with his tongue so firmly in his cheek, I am surprised he can say anything at all. ![]()
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