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Draw or Write about the POINT about LOVE implied by Plato’s multiple “frames” or “stories” in The Symposium, which means “drinking party.” You can use any of the questions and the framework below to help you shape your final discussion and reflection.

How does framing in Platos Symposium serve the development of an argument about love?

How might you also “toast” to love at this Symposium (or “drinking party”)?

Whose toast or words most reflect your own thinking now that you have read more, talked more, thought more, etc.?  If you don’t agree with Diotima’s assessment of the ‘order’ or love-learning, what in your world needs to change or happen for you to align with Socrates and this “wise woman”?