Plato Scholarship

• What did Brown believe Plato's view on marriage to be?

  "Plato believed that the abolition of the family would improve the cohesion of the society as a whole."
• What did Waterfield argue that Plato believed about love?

  "We may be attracted towards beauty, but our real goal is happiness."
• How does Waterfield claim Plato describes sex?

  "Love that enslaves us"
• How did Waterfield believe Socrates viewed homoerotic relationships?

  "Socrates seems to have exercised self-restraint, and to have disapproved of the sexual side of homoerotic love."
• What did Melissa Lane believe Plato's view on desire to be?

  "Philosophers should have no desire for excessive physical satisfaction"
• How does Gregory Vlastos describe Alcibiades?

  "A failure of love"
• What did Melissa Lane believe that Plato believed about love?

  "Love is to be controlled"