caa a22 4500 386376441 CHVBK 20180307112020.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632038 doi S0075426900012660 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632038 White F. C. University of Tasmania, Box 252C, G.P.O., Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001 Love and Beauty in Plato's Symposium [Elektronische Daten] [F. C. White] It is a widely held view that according to the Symposium the ultimate or ‘primary' object of love is the Form of Beauty. It is almost as widely held that the Form of Beauty is identical with that of the Good. In this paper I argue that both of these views are mistaken. In a first section I present a detailed analysis of Diotima's doctrine, emphasizing features of it which I judge to be often overlooked. In subsequent sections I examine the arguments for and against the claim that Beauty is the primary object of love, and I then do the same for the assertion that the Form of Beauty is identical with that of the Good. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1989 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 149-157 0075-4269 109<149 1989 109 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632038 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632038 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- White F. C. University of Tasmania, Box 252C, G.P.O., Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 149-157 0075-4269 109<149 1989 109 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge