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In his dialogue with Diotima, part of his eulogy of love at the symposium, Socrates positions himself as the learner and Diotima as the guide, in order to pick up where his earlier dialogue with Agathon—in which Agathon was the student and Socrates decidedly the guide—left off. That tactic is very clear in this quotation, in which Diotima corrects Socrates for some of the same errors Socrates had corrected in Agathon—most notably that “love [is] the object of love instead of the lover.” Diotima is guiding Socrates toward the view that love is the search for the eternally beautiful—a view…