How do you explain what we witness in Plato’s Symposium, namely that a sexualized relationship between an adult male and an adolescent boy, which in our culture is associated with criminal behavior, appears in Athens as a model of ethical conduct?

How do you explain what we witness in Plato’s Symposium, namely that a sexualized relationship between an adult male and an adolescent boy, which in our culture is associated with criminal behavior, appears in Athens as a model of ethical conduct?

Make sure to build your response on what’s in the text, and not on your ethical beliefs. That is, you can be a reader who rejects the older man/adolescent boy relationship, or male-male sexual love, as ethical relationships, But your task is to explain the beliefs that appear in the text, not your own.

How do you explain what we witness in Plato’s Symposium, namely that a sexualized relationship between an adult male and an adolescent boy, which in our culture is associated with criminal behavior, appears in Athens as a model of ethical conduct?

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