1. The Immortality of Plato's Love
If the object of love is to have the good forever, the function of love is "giving birth in beauty both in body and in mind." (206b) Diotima begins her explanation of how "all human beings are pregnant in body and in mind" (206c) by discussing the concrete, physical pregnancy of the body. ... The shift to the abstract "pregnancy of the mind" hinges on the extension of this analogy to the mind and knowledge, saying that it grows old and must be replaced just like the body (207e 208a). This implies the existence of conceptual children as well as physical ones, and Diotima gives an example of ...
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