PHILOS 1A03 Lecture : Plato
13 Jan 2013
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A priori: knowledge whose validity is independent of experience. A posterior: knowledge that comes after experience, that depends on experience for its proof or validity. Agathon, the symposium host, and a famous tragic poet. Alcibiades, a later speaker, uninvited, who speaks not of eros but of socrates. The speech of socrates: refutation of agathon: eros is not happy or beautiful, the speech of diotima. Means something different, usually opposite, from what is said. True in one way, and false in another. Idea of good : intelligible things : understanding (nous) An allegory of: the human situation, philosophical enlightenment, democracy. / ple to /; greek: , pl t n, broad;[2] 424/423 bc[a] 348/347 bc) was a lato ( Classical greek philosopher, mathematician, student of socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the academy in athens, the first institution of higher learning in the.
