Symposium

General Information ·<Tab/>Written by Plato and based on a dinner party attended by seven men to discuss the topic of love. Usually they would have drunk plenty of wine but they had just attended one of the men's daughter's wedding so they decide to have a dialogue on love. ·<Tab/>Socrates is one of the men, but his part was …

…has no respect for women. His arguments are flawed because if we were all derived from the one identical being then why are the rights of one sex less than another if they were begotten from the same thing? And why is love given to each unequally between the three types, does not the rest of the men there say Love is the mean of good and evil, ignorance and wisdom, the great equaliser as