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Virtue in Plato’s Symposium

According to many scholars Plato’s Symposium reaches its summit in Diotima’s account of love, Diotima’s account of love in the higher mysteries, and the higher mysteries in the contemplation of Beauty, this last being the true lover’s ultimate object. Against this view I shall argue that the higher mysteries reach their summit, not in the contemplation of Beauty, but in the philosopher’s bringing forth of true virtue and in the immortality that this bestows. I shall further argue that the true virtue in question is not an internal state of soul but external discourse, and that the immortality attained by the philosopher qua mortal consists in his living on in the philosophical works that he leaves behind him.1