PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Episteme, Doxa, Alcibiades
16 Oct 2018
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Socrates: the idea of beauty: the beautiful itself, absolute, pure unmixed, not polluted by human flesh (on slide) Alkibiades is the opposite of socrates: beautiful on the outside but ugly on the inside. Alkibiades not used to falling for someone who doesn"t want him back. Doesn"t realize socrates is in the room. Someone gives alkibiades to give a speech about socrates: Socrates is like a silanous statue (russian doll) you think you understand him and then he changes. Socrates makes alkibiades make like his life has been a waste of time. When he"s with socrates, he makes him want to examine himself and he"s not proud with what he finds. Socrates loves beautiful boys but doesnt have sex with them. It"s a game according to alkibiades, he calls socrates life a game. Simple irony - literally false, implies something different, usually opposite, from what is said.
