Current location - Education and Training Encyclopedia - Graduation thesis - Love is to heal each other's pain —— Reading Paula's Drinking
Love is to heal each other's pain —— Reading Paula's Drinking
People often say "platonic love" generally refers to two people's yearning for each other on the spiritual level, not including the part of physical desire. If we interpret this problem from its origin, Plato's Fidesso will be a good analysis object. However, in its companion piece Yin Hui, which is generally recognized by scholars, there is a clue.

In Mr. Zhu Guangqian's translation, his notes clearly help us divide Yin Hui into ten parts, namely: preface, Yin Hui's process and suggestions to praise God, Federow's ode, Bo Senas's ode, Schmack's ode, aristophanes's ode, Agathon's ode, Socrates' ode, Alsi Budd's ode to Socrates and the last similar part.

Let me give you a brief introduction first. This part of the dialogue is between Apollo Doro and a friend, and it also implies the meeting between Apollo Doro and Grocon. On the surface, these just exist as an introduction to the subsequent narrative of drinking events in that year. But in fact, it is not difficult to find some useful information in this seemingly insignificant conversation.

First of all, we noticed that Apollo doro clearly said, "I want to inquire about you." Socrates and Alsi Budd discuss love while drinking at Agathon's house. What's the matter? " . Although the subtitle of this article is "On the Love of Beauty and Philosophical Cultivation", it looks more academic, but the theme of the discussion can still be outlined.

Secondly, the brief content also laid a good foundation for Socrates' image-Apollo said that before learning from Socrates, he was the most unfortunate person; Then it is obvious that this sentence contrasts with the greatness of his teacher-Socrates and his beloved philosophy have charm and influence that can change a person's overall life state. After hearing this, although Grokang changed the topic early with strong curiosity and doubt, he will find Plato's shrewdness after reading it: in fact, he has inadvertently praised the teacher and laid a good foundation for shaping this glorious image.

Then it can be said that the article began to get down to business, and the subject of narration became Aristotle who directly participated in the party. This part mainly focuses on two aspects: first, Socrates' being late for drinking further enriches our previous image, which is mainly manifested in Aristotle's and Agathon's question and answer about why Socrates didn't come in when he arrived at the door; The second, of course, is the discussion topic of praising God's love. But the real drinking etiquette has become a secondary focus (of course, this is in line with Plato's dialogue narrative style, because dialogue is not suitable for expressing the event process or sketching the macro scene).

Let's talk about the first aspect. We can see an unusual person from the normal things of ordinary people, such as wearing shoes in the shower, and how unique he is in other people's narratives. From this person's thinking on the road alone, he can feel his stubbornness without the habit of stopping.

In fact, Socrates didn't appear in this place for a long time, but readers have already had a distinct and special impression on this real protagonist through the introduction of others, which can't be said to be Plato's "ambition" work, which comes from his conception and literary talent. Socrates gave full support and affirmation to the proposal of praising the god of love by saying that "he only knows love". Here is the suspense of this article: we look forward to hearing the opinions of people who only know love.

However, the best is often regarded as the finale, so in the future, Socrates' protagonist function is cleverly hidden, and people of different identities and occupations begin to praise God differently.

The sophists Federow and Bo Senas first appeared. Federow told a story and then said, "Only people who love each other are willing to sacrifice their lives for each other." . But this story compares the wife's love for her husband with the parents' love for her husband, and draws the conclusion that the latter is not as good as the former, which obviously looks at the scope of love too narrowly: the philosophy of love should certainly not be limited to lovers; More importantly, the love of most parents for their children will never be as unbearable as he described, just passers-by.

In Pausenias praise, there is a sentence that seems familiar. "The ugly way is to deal with despicable objects in a despicable way, and the beautiful way is to deal with noble objects in a noble way." This can't help but remind people of two well-known poems by Kosuke Kitajima, a contemporary poet: meanness is the passport of the despicable, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble. I wonder if the famous saying of the latter comes from this inspiration source of 1000 years ago? Although the nature of sophistry cannot be changed, there is indeed an irrefutable truth in Paosenias' words: "Because these forces, reputations and money are not permanent; Of course, noble friendship cannot be produced by these things. "

Due to the sudden hiccups of comedian aristophanes, the following eulogists temporarily changed their order. Erich Mark's scientific praise is certainly important. Starting from my own professional medicine, when it comes to the harmony of music and the alternation of four seasons, we can also see the clue of dialectical thought by using various antonyms. However, aristophanes, who delayed speaking, seems to be better.

"From very ancient times, people's passion for loving each other has been planted in people's hearts. It wants to restore the original overall state, combine two people into one, and heal the wound that was cut off before "-the original combination between lovers is actually to heal each other's pain. Plato potentially criticized the argument of carnal love through aristophanes's mouth, telling people here that love is people's inner desire to make peace through division, which has actually raised love to the spiritual level.

After that, Agathon appeared. The master who just won the drama award put forward the perfect essence of love, which deepened the consciousness that love gradually "forgot" the sensory side in the spiritual level. This is an improvement on the solid foundation laid by aristophanes. Then, Socrates' thought will be more easily accepted and recognized, thus minimizing the sudden sophistry that may be caused by the debate dialogue (Socrates and Agathon, Socrates and Oedipus).

The stage centered on Socrates has finally begun. In order to overturn Agathon's eulogy, he first had a question and answer with the other party, and the final result was of course his success: Agathon's theory of perfect love was fragile and collapsed under Socrates' fierce pursuit. Although the former explanation has deepened our understanding of the spiritual level of love, Socrates seems ungrateful. Instead, refute each other's arguments and start to establish your own views.

First of all, "love is a desire to keep all the good things for yourself forever." Here, Plato completed the narration and sublimation of "spiritual love" through a conclusion of Oedipus. Everyone wants to pursue beautiful things, beautiful things, and such a beautiful wish makes us feel relaxed and happy when we see beautiful and kind things; Sensory contact or, secondly, just putting beauty and kindness in your sight can achieve spiritual pleasure and enjoyment.

Secondly, "the purpose of love is to sow seeds in the object of beauty, use it to reproduce future generations, and achieve immortality that ordinary people can enjoy." We have noticed that the story about the origin and evolution of human beings created by aristophanes is most directly related to the reproductive problems here in the previous eulogy.

A common structural feature of Drinking is to put the essence at the end, and the former will be dissolved or eclipsed by the final best contrast. Only the comedian's point of view was not directly refuted by Socrates. On the contrary, aristophanes actually made some preparations for introducing this wise man's eulogy. Christopher Roy, a professor of Greek studies, believes that "the destruction of aristophanes's speech did not happen, and many readers found his whimsical enlightenment story touching, thus looking for a positive role in the argument of dialogue.

However, from Plato's point of view, the main point seems to emphasize the incompleteness of pure physical combination, but failed to propose an alternative. Of course, Socrates filled this gap. "So, he continued to pursue beauty and goodness, adding an endless immortal period to people's good wishes. The way to achieve immortality is to combine with the object of beauty and complete the reproductive process. In this way, it not only adds rationality to aristophanes's original absurd story, but also further strengthens the argument of exploring absolute beauty. Socrates ended his eulogy and got a lot of praise.

After Alsi Bader officially entered the drinking venue, I, an alcoholic, enlivened the originally quiet academic atmosphere because of Socrates' philosophical speech. Interestingly, he should make a eulogy for the theme of this cup of wine: he should love God, but he chose to praise people instead of God! And all the people present accepted his topic.

Alsi Budd started with Socrates' appearance, described his calm mind when he faced the temptation, and then went to the battlefield with a more magical plot. It can be said that through these, the impression left by Socrates in the previous texts was pieced together bit by bit, and finally a vivid but legendary character image was formed. Until the end of the article, this color continued, and the reader saw Socrates' incredible abundant spirit through Aristotle's eyes.

Alsi Bader's narration once again confirms Plato's love spirit. Because Socrates' restraint and calmness in such a specific situation highlights a rational beauty. It can be said that this is the feeling revealed in Platonic Love. In the face of love, we need to use rational emotions. Compared with the spiritual communication between two people, sensory stimulation is as unbearable as Alsi Budd's feeling after being rejected.

Plato's ideal love has right and wrong, good and bad. I think everyone has his own judgment and evaluation. But the idealized love desire described in Plato's "Drinking"-even if it is naive and difficult to achieve, even if it is lofty and difficult to achieve-has its own moving characteristics.