PHILOS 2ZZ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychophysiology, Eryximachus, Unconditional Love
17 Sep 2016
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W2- philosophy of love- sappho and the erotic dilemma. Todd may: intensity of engagement vs. sappho: intensity of desire. May writes in the present time: society centered around the couple. Sappho is written a long time ago: 600 bce before plato and vulgar love. Sappho: distinction between love and desire, intensity of desire both pleasurable and painful, describes the passion of falling in love, we see eros as a verb. Hymn to aphrodite: she"s talking with aphrodite, asking for aphrodite to be her ally, aphrodite is asking who has wronged you, what do you want. Eros as bittersweet desire in sappho"s fragments seen throughout her verse no distinction between vulgar love and true love desire does not precede love: it"s one its own. Anne carson: argues that in these fragments we see the structure of desire, beauty spins and the mind moves, to catch beauty would be to understand hoe that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible.
