Koin?nia in the Symposium: from community to communion?

Plato’s Symposium stages a playful subversion of paiderastia by philosophia through successive interconnected speeches. Phaedrus and Agathon praise Er?s as a god presiding over homoerotic relationships, be it at war or at peace. Pausanias and Eryximachus distinguish between two Er?tes, being eager t...

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Autor: Lenner, Zdenek
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/25060
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/25060
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Érōs
Philía
Koinōnía
Pederastía
Philosophía
Erōs
Philia
Koinōnia
Paiderastia
Philosophia
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Sumario:Plato’s Symposium stages a playful subversion of paiderastia by philosophia through successive interconnected speeches. Phaedrus and Agathon praise Er?s as a god presiding over homoerotic relationships, be it at war or at peace. Pausanias and Eryximachus distinguish between two Er?tes, being eager to supervise these paiderastic communities or even the cosmic harmony. But Aristophanes subverts their perspective by introducing the Androgyne, a combination of male and female, which being displayed by Socrates-Diotima will finally give birth to the Er?s-Daim?n. Only he ensures us real human community by enabling true communion with the divine, witness Alcibiades’ final praise of Socrates.