...selfsufficient and cannot have any need-love, but it can impart of its goodness and beauty to all else: 'beauty absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which...ever-growing and perishing beauties of all other things.' (Symposium 21 IB). Is this not gift-love - or agape"? As we shall see in the next chapter, this was...

...other being, as for example in an animal, or in heaven, or in earth, or in any other place; but beauty absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which...ever-growing and perishing beauties of all other things. (Plato, Symposium, 210-211a) I read this as a glowing account of the good, in Diotima's voice, given...

...other being, as for example in an animal, or in heaven, or in earth, or in any other place; but beauty absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which...ever-growing and perishing beauties of all other things. (Plato, Symposium, 210e-211a) Abundance belongs to nature everlasting, without change, giving absolute,...

...other being, as for example, in an animal, or in heaven, or on earth, or in any other place; but beauty absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which...ever-growing and perishing beauties of all other things" (Symposium, 211 AB).49 Remaining silent about himself — the author, the human vessel of the truth...

...Diotima's own words, 'beauty only, absolute, separate, single, and everlasting, which without diminution or increase, or any change, is imparted to the evergrowing and perishing beauties of all other things'.13 There are aspects of Diotima's account that are surely accessible to, and perhaps helpful...

...or at one place fair, at another time or in another relation or in another place foul,... but beauty absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which...ever-growing and perishing beauties of all other things" (Plato, Symposium, 210e-211a). 5. See the introduction here, p. 6. 6. "[H]uman language, as original...

...nature which in the first place is everlasting, not growing or decaying or waxing and waning.. .but beauty only, absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting,...without increase or any change, is imparted to the ever growing and perishing beauties of all other things.... And the true order of going or being led...

...instructed thus far . . . when he comes to the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty . . . absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which...or any change, is imparted to the ever-growing and perishable beauties of all other things. He who from these ascending . . . using these as steps only...