El banquete by Plato7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Concerning the narrators, Apollodorus is recalling the report Aristodemus gave him to satisfy Glaucon’s demand. This polyphony manifests at two different levels: the narrators of the Symposium and the speakers during the Symposium. Now, even if the sense of koinōnia may thus seem very loose, be it a sharing of sensible things or a participation in the intelligible, a kind of harmony of contrary things or the communication between them, we can still find this very polysemy in the Symposium, because of the great polyphony of this dialogue constantly interweaving all these possible meanings. ![]() ![]() In his Lexicon of Plato’s philosophical and religious language, Édouard Des Places 1 distinguished four main meanings of the word koinōnia in Plato’s dialogues: (1) participation, in general or in an Idea, as the participation of beautiful things in Beauty itself in the Phaedo (ἡ ἐκείνου τοῦ καλοῦ εἴτε παρουσία εἴτε κοινωνία, 100d6) (2) community (of), as the common possession of women and children in the Republic (κοινωνίαν γυναικῶν τε καὶ παίδων, V 449d4) (3) community (between), as the association of sky and earth, gods and men in the Gorgias (καὶ οὐρανὸν καὶ γῆν καὶ θεοὺς καὶ ἀνθρώπους τὴν κοινωνίαν, 508a1) but also as the combination of the opposites in the Philebus (ἡ τούτων (sc. ![]()
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