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The Problem of Reported Speech: Friendship and Philosophy in Plato's Lysis and Symposium

Plato's discussions of love and friendship in Lysis¹ and Symposium,² unlike those of Aristotle, reputedly allow little place for love or affection toward individuals. This conclusion is reached through several routes; for some, it is the aporetic inconclusiveness of the discussion concerning the nature of friendship in Lysis; for others, it is the suggestion that love inspires one to see in the beloved something which betokens higher realities and is merely occasioned by the beloved, i.e., the lover's gaze ultimately passes beyond the specificities of human beauty.³ In Symposium, Diotoma allegedly suggests that eros is infinitely substitutable and impersonal. It...