Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Fulvia De Luise
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/1
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 137-156 File size 541 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2014-001008
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The question addressed in this paper is the peculiar transmission of experience from Diotima to Socrates, with regard to the nature of desire and to happiness as a human good: a process which Plato represents in his Symposium as a starting point for the young philosopher. The peculiar kind of wisdom Diotima shows, the fact that she is a woman will be examined as a part of Plato’s representative strategy. The main thesis discussed here is that, within Plato’s strategy, the shape of existential consciousness transmitted from Diotima to the young philosopher had a decisive role to prepare Socrates’ anthropine Sophia and his dialectical practice: by showing that eros is the distinctive sign both of human fragility and creativity, the priestess made Socrates able to criticise the ideology of possessive hybris and the connected claim to immortality.
Keywords: Diotima, Socrates, Wisdom, Consciousness, eros, lack
Fulvia De Luise, Why is Diotima Socrates’ first teacher? in "PARADIGMI" 1/2014, pp 137-156, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2014-001008