Symposium - AIC

Gerard Boter
concentrates on the fate of Socrates’ soul after the death of the man Socrates: he is the perfect
philosopher whose immortal soul will eventually escape from the cycle of reincarnation and live
forever with the gods, in perfect contact with the Forms. The Symposium deals with the man Socrates
in this world of ours: his actual life as the perfect philosopher-lover, as related in Alcibiades’ speech,
and his posthumous life in which he will become immortal by his offspring, true virtue. The fact that
we are talking about Socrates today proves that Plato was fully justified in putting this prediction into
the mouth of his admired master.
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