Plato's Symposium: The First Three

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ones to prove his point. Because of this, he didn’t have very much to say correctly about society in general, considering the fact that the few generalities he made were incorrect.
However, the issues discussed by Pausanias and Eryximachus were quite interesting. Pausanias used similar methods to Phaedras, except he dissected Phaedras’s argument using logic and giving an example for each circumstance presented. These examples were those of applying the argument into society, a very effective method. At the same time, it was commenting on the nature of society overall, critiquing and analyzing it along with the façade of love, so to speak. In doing so, this put his argument into another perspective for the audience, thus reinforcing the thesis or circumstance which he was discussing at the moment. Eryximachus followed Pausanias’s method. This was probably because Pausanias’s speech came across effectively to him. However, since he began with criticizing Pausanias as well as ...

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