The Transition from the Lower to the Higher Mysteries of Love in Plato's Symposium

The Transition from the Lower to the Higher Mysteries of Love in Plato's Symposium

In the Symposium Socrates shows how Diotima initiated him into the mysteries of love in two stages. Yet, at first sight, the teachings offered at the two stages seem divergent and discontinuous. In this article I argue that we can understand the continuity between them if we regard Diotima's no...

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