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标题：Why is Socrates’ ‘Absurd Question’ Absurd? (Plato, Symposium 199 C 6-D 7)
作者：Denis O’Brien
期刊名称：The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition
印刷版ISSN：1872-5082
电子版ISSN：1872-5473
出版年度：2010
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：4-26
DOI：10.1163/187254710X489121
出版社：BRILL
摘要：The form of beauty is the ultimate correlate of love in Socrates’ account of Diotima’s teaching in the Symposium. To arrive at this insight, Socrates aims to show the ‘absurdity’ of adopting any more specific correlate as a definition of the very nature of love. Were love defined as love ‘for a father or a mother’, we could never love anyone who was not our father or our mother. An obvious absurdity.
关键词：dialectic; Symposium; relationship; analogy; Platonic idiom; apposition; eros; desire; beauty