Feb. 28, 2007

Frame: stories within stories. Such works like the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, and new examples are works such as Star Wars and Star Trek.
-Socratic irony: discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. This goes back to the notion of story telling. What is the "art" of storytelling?" In the Symposium, there is a nature of love, but what kind of love is it? Sometimes people go through many stages to find what they believe is real love.
sophia=wisdom
phila=love
phila+sophia= philosophy
In Symposium, there are many different kinds of love displayed. "Homoerotic" love which is older males loving younger males, or pedophilia love. This is not to be taken in any weird way, it is mean to say that, "the people who can most relate to each other are most in love. They also don't have to worry about having children. And their intellectual behavior is the same." For example, Socrates and Alich had a type of this love, but it would be easier to say that it was a PLUTONIC love. (I love you, but I am not in love with you.) Nothing more, nothing less. I think that the most important thing to understand about this situation is to see all the beauty in life. Like the notion of "life is but a dream." Your dreams and goals make your life's dream come true. It is up to oneself to create the perfect life that he/she wants.
On that note, we are supposed to go and make someone else's life interesting. Good luck to all!
Godspeed!