1 Eros, or love, is the topic for discussion in Plato's Symposium. ... This is ironic because from the beginning of the Symposium it is made explicitly clear that women are not wise enough to know and discuss eros. ... There is a distinction made between love's creation being beautiful and love itself being beautiful. ... Here Socrates admires Diotima in the same way that everyone in the Symposium admires Socrates. Throughout the Symposium, eros is constantly used in conjunction with homosexuality. ...

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