Topic Question:
Alcibiades. What role does the intrusion of Alcibiades play in The Symposium? Does it support any of the claims offered earlier in the discussion? Does it offer its own view of love? Develop an argument in which you explain why so much of The Symposium is devoted to Alcibiades.
What I want to argue (Please write the whole thing according to what I want to write about): Diotima argues that we are in a constant search of the forever good and according to the mystery rite people go through each stage and gradually progresses on their view of what’s worth and desirable to love from physical attraction to the beauty(the forever good)
Alcibiades is on the other hand fixated on the idea of the agalma within Socrates.
The difference between Alcibiades’s view on love and diotima’s is that Diotima wants everyone to be in the search of the forever good for themselves whereas Alcibiades is fixated on something that is already there in someone else.
If you want to argue from another view please let me know so I know and is able to understand and extend or revise the essay.
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