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Diotima gives Socrates a genealogy of Love , stating that he is the son of "resource (poros) and poverty (penia)". In her view, love drives the individual to seek beauty, first earthly beauty, or beautiful bodies. Then as a lover grows in wisdom, the beauty that is sought is spiritual, or beautiful souls.
Diotíma (formerly Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World) is an online resource about "women, gender, sex, sexualities, race, ethnicity, class, status, masculinity, enslavement, disability, and the intersections among them in the ancient Mediterranean world."
Under Nussbaum's consciousness of vulnerability, the re-entrance of Alcibiades at the end of the dialogue undermines Diotima's account of the ladder of love in its ascent to the non-physical realm of the forms. Alcibiades's presence deflects attention back to physical beauty, sexual passions, and bodily limitations, hence highlighting human ...
“With this collection, I wanted to explore a lot of the language and vocabulary I started with in the first few seasons,” Diotima designer Rachel Scott said during a preview of her latest ...
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Beauty then is the perennial philosopher, the "lover of wisdom" (the Greek word "philia" being one of the four words for love). After describing Love's origins, that provide clues to its nature, Diotima asks Socrates why is it, as he had previously agreed, that love is always that "of beautiful things" (204b).
Last night, image architect Law Roach announced to a room filled with fashion editors and designers that Rachel Scott of Diotima was the recipient of the CFDA's 2024 Empowered Vision Award.
[2] [3] According to the character Diotima, Eros is forever in need because of his mother, but forever pursuing because of his father. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This figure exists in Roman mythology as well and is known as Pomona , [ citation needed ] in which Porus is the personification of abundance .