HIST-UA 105 Lecture Notes - Everyman, Meletus, Sophist
25 Apr 2014
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Imagine if it could flow by contact from someone who had more of it into someone who had less of it! The ability to feel shame at disgraceful behavior and pride in good behavior, because without these qualities no individual or community could achieve anything great or fine. (11) He feels particularly ashamed at being caught behaving badly by his lovers (11) The best conceivable organization for a community or battalion would be for it to consist of lovers and their boyfriends, since they"d compete with one another in avoiding any kind of shameful act (11) A lover is bad if he is of the common type, who loves the body rather than the mind (17) On the other hand, a lover who loves goodness of character is constant for life, because of the constancy of the object he"s been united with (17)
