For one thing, it ignores the other occasions on which, through Socrates, Plato discusses the beauty of the body, the health of the body, the light of the body, the care of the body. What’s lost by ...

and the one who loves the beautiful: the lover. Commonly in Plato’s Greece, this love is a relationship between two men, where the lover is an older, intellectually superior partner, whereas the ...

Plato believed that love is the motivation that leads one to try to know and contemplate beauty in itself. This happens through a gradual process that begins with an appreciation of the appearance of ...

Like Socrates, Plato remained convinced there were such things as absolute goodness, beauty and truth. He believed the soul was eternal, and all knowledge was just a remembering of things the soul ...