<anthropology, affective life> Greek personification of love; hence, sexual desire or love generally. Plato's Symposium offers a set of speeches on the nature of love in human life. Recommended Reading: F. E. Peters, Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon (NYU, 1967); Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., Symposia: Plato, the Erotic, and Moral Value (SUNY, 1999); and Jamey Hecht, Plato's Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament (Twayne, 1999).
[A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names]
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