PHILOS 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mantineia
9 Jan 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Mantineia: wise woman, who delayed the plague ten years. She was socrates instructress in the art of love. Socrates refers to love as a mighty god but also fair: says mantineia proves to him that love is neither fair or good. Mantineia says there is a mean between wisdom and ignorance as well as foul and good: cannot say that things which are not fair must be foul, and things which are not good must be evil. She describes love as being a spirit, a mean between divine and the mortal. Says god does not mingle with man, but that is where the intercourse happens, and the conversing. He ask her who the mother and father are. Says poverty plotted to conceive a child with plenty. Love is a follower and attendant of aphrodite. As his parentage is, so also are his fortunes.
