PHIL 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Penia, Agathon
12 Feb 2016
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Of the gods, essentially that it was mathematically perfect in its creation. 1. professor showed many pictures in the slide, that depicted humans with the beauty. According to socrates, the world was an illusion of sorts in which everything that we put a name to, whether it be a horse or table has a perfect external existence. Which essentially mean that there are universal ideal forms, but the world that we live in is illusion. However the truth is in these perfect eternal existence. With regards to background on this symposium. this is what is the context: There was a drinking party. where everyone was basically was drunk. During this time, there was attidude towards drinking being conclusive to philosophy, because drinking allows you to be inhibited. So after the party takes place, we have socrates that comes in later, with his lover, aristodemus who was uninvited. This party that was held, was in place for agathon.
