PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Irony, Agathon, Penia
15 Oct 2016
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Eros is the happiest of the gods, the most beautiful, and the most happy. Eros is a poet, because erotic desire can make poetry out of anything. Artistry and the creation of beauty is the proof of wise knowledge. He refutes the speech of agathon, eros is not happy or beautiful. He realizes the speech is about entertainment, but not the truth. Create an appearance of praise without praising at all. Love is the desire for what we have, agathon is wrong for saying eros is happy because one cannot be happy if they are not satisfied. Eros is not beautiful, because we only love what we lack. Agathon surrenders and says he is wrong. Socrates changes the theme of erotic love between men by bringing up a woman speaker named diotima. Instead he is somewhere in the middle, there is always a demonic middle ground. States eros is not beautiful nor ugly, and not good nor bad.
