PHL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Penia, Demigod, Ween
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Socrates would hold the position that virtue is not teachable by the methods that protagoras uses by promoting persuading so you become the majority, and the majority view is dominant hoping that majority chooses something right. It is not teachable in a way that you can teach greek grammar or a skill like a techn . But teachable perhaps in the way that socrates goes about teaching it ironically. R s means, in greek, it is primarily sexual in conversation but not exclusively. Socrates will say something very extraordinary about r s. Side note: aristophanes gives a speech that consists in a myth about how love arose. Love is the search of males and females for their other halves. Someone who can"t find his or her other half, is unhappy and someone who can is happy: we will only focus on socrates speech. Keep in mind that this m thos is related to the philosophical claim that diolima will make.
