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A) Plato's Symposium is a story about a party in which the guests were so sick from continuous parties that instead of drinking at this one party they decide to give stories about love. With the permission of Phaedrus, Socrates has an interesting discussion Agathon instead of a monologue-styled story. Socrates actually starts by giving Agathon a series of questions about love. Socrates goes on to ask Agathon if a father must be father to something in order to be called a father. Then Socrates asks Agathon whether the same principle applies to mothers and brothers; one must be a brother or mother to someone or something else. Agathon agrees with all of these examples, but then Socrates asks "Does Love love nothing or something?", and Agathon replies "He loves something, of course." With love established to love something or someone, Socrates then asks Agathon that "when you love something, do you desire it?" Agathon answers yes. Once again Socrates asks another question concerning......

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