Apontamentos acerca da fala de Diotima de Mantineia no Banquete, de Platão: ou o discurso sobre o amor nas palavras de uma mulher sacerdotisa/hetaira

Abstract

The present article is about the discourse of Diotima of Mantineia in the Banquet, of Plato (2016). The speech of the priestess and hetaira (prostitute) was used through the speech of Socrates to treat about Love, - this as a demiurgic entity. In the Platonic dialectic we observe that the Eros is an intermediary between the men and the gods: son born of a poor mother and a resourceful father. The hypothetical question raised through the text /fabric of the aristocratic Plato was the entrance, even in discursive stance, of a woman, in a male enclosure, to make love to the Platonic dialogue. It is noteworthy that Diotima of Mantineia was a priestess and hetaira (courtesan), and that, for this reason, her presence was tolerated among the guests of the Banquet, even if, it is repeated: in eminently domain of discursiveness. In Classical Greece of the fifth century a. The Hetairas lived in approximate status of the citizens of the polis, they had education and they guided politicos in erotic subjects, when philosophical subjects - this was the case of Socrates. And that the womenwives of the legitimate Athenians, equated with slaves and strangers, were confined to oikos, that is, deprivation. We conclude that the presence of Diotima de Mantineia brought to the philosophical plot of the Banquet the opportunity to reaffirm the Platonic metaphysics of the Forms (world of Ideas) and of the experience (sensible world) that measure the construction of the being philosopher, who, in turn, is debtor of the Episteme born of Doxa to become an authentic lover of wisdom.