PHIL 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Ancient Greece, Sick Individuals
18 Apr 2017
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210b introduces what we might call a stranger idea about love and friendship. Socrates argues, that everyone will love you and become familiar with you if you become knowledgeable because you will be helpful and beneficial . This notion develops a well-established ethos in ancient greek society which is that of the excellent individual. Love and friendship are given to those who are capable, skillful. But if this is the case then, as our translator points out, friendship only has instrumental value. This may seem strange to us because we have a post-romantic notion of friendship. Romanticism was the period of history immediately after the 18th century, the age of. The romantics stressed, among other things, community feeling communion with nature. We are still suffering from the hangover that is romanticism. We are of the opinion that our friends are similar spirits to ourselves. Finding such similar spirits helps us to fix the diremption we find in ourselves.
