Edited by Giuseppe Tortora.
E mail: tortora@unina.it
The story of the 'Symposium' end here. But of course the ending makes you think. What will Plato meant imagining in these terms?
The irruption of young revelers all back to reality. A reality in which there is no room for thought. Which does not seem to make sense to order. The noise goes out every thought and every conversation that makes sense. Just
any consideration? All the talk? At last only noise
Aristophanes, Agathon, and Socrates. Two poets and a philosopher. In other words: only poetry and philosophy remain alert to reflect on the things that happen, only they are capable of maintaining a sense, a rule, an order. Only the theatrical performance and resist the dominant philosophical meditation confusion order to judge men and events, to indicate a measurement.
And even Aristophanes and Agathon surrender to sleep. And so, when the art tragic and comic art have come to limit them, by which time they have exhausted all their possibilities, there remains only the philosophy, who receiving the tragic and the comic's life, can point to an objective , a standard.
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