PHIL 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Agathon, Silenus
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Love"s moral character: neither the cause nor the victim of any injustice. Agathon"s view as characterized by socrates: love is love of something. You love things you presently need and don"t have love is desire for beauty. It was a beautiful speech anyway, agathon, socrates (22) No, love is something in between these extremes. And it is neither mortal nor immortal, is between these realms. Like good judgement sits between ignorance and wisdom. Love must be a lover of wisdom (which is beautiful) and thus must be neither wise nor ignorant. Reproduction is what mortals have in place of immortality. Those pregnant in body (men who love women) pursue love, providing themselves with immortality in childbirth. Those pregnant in soul beget wisdom and the rest of virtue (including justice) They seek another who is beautiful in body and soul; Such a man makes him instantly teem with ideas and arguments about virtue (25)
