Plato's Symposium: The First Three
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The first three speeches given in Plato’s Symposium (Phaedras, Pausanias, and Eryximachus) each possessed an undermining philosophy unique unto themselves. Phaedras began with the nature of love, followed by Pausanias and Eryximachus whom both discussed the ethics and application of love in the ....
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.... his logic was quite flawed at times, but the delivery was quite good, save for a few mistakes that were probably due to his nervous state. He used multiple examples to help justify his point, yet never gave very helpful ones to prove his point. Because of this, he didn’t have very much to say correctly about society in general, considering the fact that the few generalities he made were incorrect.
However, the issues discussed by Pausanias and Eryximachus were quite interesting. Pausanias ....
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