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According to In Plato's Banquet, theoretical speculation and aesthetic creation are intertwined in such a way that it is difficult to frame them exclusively in the history of philosophy or in that of literature. Devoted to discussing love, after successive and unsatisfactory ways of approaching the question, the doctrine of platonic love is exposed through Socrates and his supposed mentor, the priestess Diotima, which in successive degrees of abstraction leads to that kind of unio mystica. with the ideal form of beauty to which the true lover of beautiful things arrives. This dialogue anticipates the doctrine of the salvific function of love expounded in the Phaedrus, but above all it recreates that unrepeatable intellectual environment of late 5th century BC Athena. In its various manifestations,
Although born in the homoerotic environment of the Academy, The Platonic Banquet created the symposium literary genre and managed to avoid, thanks to its immense beauty, the dangers that over the centuries loomed over "nefarious love." About the Author:
Plato was a Greek philosopher follower of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. In 387 a. C. founded the Academy of Athens, an institution that would continue for more than nine hundred years and to which Aristotle would go from Estagira to study philosophy around 367 BC. C., sharing twenty years of friendship and work with his teacher.
Plato developed his philosophical doctrines through myths and allegories.