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Plato (Views on Desire (How it can be resisted/controlled (Plato…

- - - - Controlling desire insures that society is better place
      - In Republic, he says that everyone should be moderate and controlled to enable good state
      - Eryximachus - comparison between unhealthy food and unhealthy desire
      - Says everyone dreams our desires but it is up to our rational selves to control them
- - - - 'Recievers' seen as less manly
- - - - Has been taught by Diotoma
        
        A Priestess
        
        Love is neither ugly, nor attractive, divine nor mortal
      - Seekers of love must move past physical desire and strive for what is beautiful
      - Love is strive for goodness and pursuit of truth
        
        Philosophy
    - - In Homerotic relationship
        
        Pausanias is erastes
        
        Each is driven to do well for the state in front of the other
      - Love is path to virtue
    - - Doctor, therefore ideas are more scientific
      - Love as human manifestation of a natural phenomenon
        
        Can be seen in nature and produces natural harmony in life
    - - Comic playwright
      - Believes in sphere as origins of love
        
        Humans originally spheres with two sets of body parts
        
        Three sexes - male, female and androgynous
        
        Split in half by Zeus for overconfidence
        
        Each half then spends life looking for its other half
        
        This explains heterosexual and homosexual relationships
        
        Longing for wholeness, perfect partner for everybody
    - - Tragic poet
      - Praises virute of love in poetic style
      - Love is young, sweet, just, courageous and wise
      - Love is desired because love is beautiful
    - - Athenian General during Peloponnesian War
        
        Leads Sicilian Expedition
      - Athenian Politician
      - Desires Socrates
        
        Socrates refuses him though
        
        Some believe this unnatural desire is what led to the failure of Sicilian Expeditio
    - - In Homoerotic relationship
        
        Phaedrus is Eromenos
        
        Pederasty
      - Love
        
        Pandemian Eros
        
        Sexual love/desire for body
        
        Pan (all), Demos (people)
        
        Both men and women experience this
        
        Uranian Eros
        
        'Nobler' love
        
        Male desire for other males
        
        Friendship, shared knowledge, virtue
- - - - Desire is displayed by chaarcters such as Calypso, Circe and Odysseus
      - Odysseus and Penelope are archetypal married couple
    - - By 404BC, it had failed