Diotima and Demeter as Mystagogues in Plato's<i>Symposium</i>

Evans, Nancy

doi:10.2979/hyp.2006.21.2.1

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“…Thus, the topic of human mating and sexual behavior has garnered significant attention. From Philosophers to Psychologists, most minds have wandered to find answers and to come up with explanations to understand and predict this aspect of human behavior (Irigaray & Carlston, 1989;Buss & Schmitt, 1993;Buss, 1995;Evans, 2006;Schulz, 2009;Williams & Jacobson, 2016). The most common perspective, however, involves Evolutionary Psychology and its impact on human mating and sexual behavior.…”

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The Influence of Evolutionary Psychology on Human Mating and Sexual Behavior

Fayyaz¹

2019

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Over the course of history, human beings have taken keen interest in the mating activity. The survival of the human species has been dependent on sexual mating and human reproduction; the need for sexual companionship has played a pivotal role in building societies and establishing social as well as intimate relationships. To overcome the problem of finding a suitable sexual partner, men and women adopt different strategies, based on their roles in the society. This paper discusses the impact of Evolutionary Psychology on Human mating and sexual behavior. David Buss's Sexual Strategies Theory is considered one of the major research programs to investigate how this relationship works. This paper aims to provide an emotional and cultural perspective on how evolutionary psychology has influenced human sexual and mating behaviors. It can be said that Buss's theory, despite being one of its kind, has failed to look at the complete picture. These limitations are due to various reasons; such as over emphasis on the polygamous nature of men, the evaluation of parental investment of both sexes, the problems each of the sexes can solve by using these strategies and how mating is considered an individual activity instead of a cooperative one. The cultural, philosophical and emotional take on the evolution of human sexual behavior brings a fresh and creative outlook.

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The Influence of Evolutionary Psychology on Human Mating and Sexual Behavior

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2019

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Irigaray and Lyotard: Birth, Infancy, and Metaphysics

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2012

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This paper examines the ways in which Luce Irigaray and Jean‐François Lyotard critique western metaphysics by drawing on notions of birth and infancy. It shows how both thinkers position birth as an event of beginning that can be reaffirmed in every act of initiation and recommencement. Irigaray's reading of Diotima's speech from Plato's Symposium is positioned as a key text for this project alongside a number of essays by Lyotard in which he explores the potency of infancy as the condition of philosophy itself. Despite this potency, however, Lyotard suggests that metaphysics is haunted by a melancholia that is inseparable from the limits of thought. I argue that Irigaray is able both to explain why western metaphysics is constitutively melancholic and to offer a shift in perspective that means we are not inevitably condemned to melancholia. The paper concludes that while Lyotard's account of infancy challenges the terms of western metaphysics from within, Irigaray's reassessment of our beginnings in birth offers the possibility of an alternative metaphysical horizon.

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Diotima and Demeter as Mystagogues in Plato'sSymposium

Cited by 2 publications

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The Influence of Evolutionary Psychology on Human Mating and Sexual Behavior

The Influence of Evolutionary Psychology on Human Mating and Sexual Behavior

Irigaray and Lyotard: Birth, Infancy, and Metaphysics

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