PHL200Y1 Lecture 1: PHL200Y1 Plato_s Symposium (2)
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The general claim in the argument: people who love really desires good, or the goods, because they think that in having this, or other things, they will be happy. An r s for being beautiful (kalon - : a sensible answer would be it does nothing special, its just you are. In the first instance (starting point is always sex, although he is going to expand on the meaning of r s beyond sexual, the answer is the argon of sex is birth. The answer is children are troubling answer because the greeks knew about the difference between sex and children, they knew how to prevent pregnancy. If you tried to give logos of to kalon it would be difficult. Then saying this is just a special case of your desire for the good. Given that, we should not limit to kalon to physical beauty.
