Symposium:
-Patriarchal because there is only men allowed.
-The girls who were entertainers, the flute girls, were even kicked out.
This book is very interesting to me because it just seems so modern to me for its time. For example, in the beginning it is explained that there is a group of men sitting around drinking together. ("sympotein" meaning "to drink together") This is very much like many men of today who get together on Sundays to drink beer and watch football, or "Poker Night." Interesting....
Plato, the author of Symposium forms a very imaginative philosophy. This philosophy in class was compared to the "Matrix" theme. Explained in class, "dialectic philosophy" is "us sitting in a cave and what we see is life on the projections on the cave wall." This in turn started the idea of modern day movies.
"The film describes a future in which the world is actually the Matrix, a simulated reality created by sentient machines in order to pacify, subdue and make use of the human population as an energy source by growing them and connecting them to the Matrix with cybernetic implants. It contains numerous references to the cyberpunk and hacker subcultures; philosophical and religious ideas, including Vedanta, messianism and Socratic, Cartesian, and Platonic idealism; and homages to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Hong Kong action movies and Japanese animation." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix)
Raconteur: story teller
Today we also heard the story of the woman who told stories in a Nazi Concentration Camp to save he life and the life of her sister. Although the woman kind of "yanked Mr. Sexson's chain" she still made a good point and also told a great story of "The Beggar King."
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