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A review by damagedglories
The Symposium by Plato
3.0
“love is the most ancient of the gods, the most honoured, and most effective in enabling human beings to acquire courage and happiness, both in life and death”
honestly didn’t expect it to take me that long. i think it was a bit too dense, but not at the fault of the source material, but the translator. it reads too broad for such a wordy passage.
onto the actual passage, i appreciate how everyone’s on opinion on what love means and what it is was so vastly different. it’s interesting because i didn’t really enjoy socrates’ since it was just a retelling of his own teacher. i understand teachers teach but isn’t the whole point of obtaining knowledge (especially on something not concrete like love) to internalize and draw our own conclusions? trying to fool everyone into disproving their own beliefs with nothing but a regurgitated belief irritated me, especially since it’s coming from The Great Socrates.
honestly didn’t expect it to take me that long. i think it was a bit too dense, but not at the fault of the source material, but the translator. it reads too broad for such a wordy passage.
onto the actual passage, i appreciate how everyone’s on opinion on what love means and what it is was so vastly different. it’s interesting because i didn’t really enjoy socrates’ since it was just a retelling of his own teacher. i understand teachers teach but isn’t the whole point of obtaining knowledge (especially on something not concrete like love) to internalize and draw our own conclusions? trying to fool everyone into disproving their own beliefs with nothing but a regurgitated belief irritated me, especially since it’s coming from The Great Socrates.