POG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hypothetical Syllogism, Baruch Spinoza, Epicureanism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Patrice Dutil

Document Summary

Symposium = erotic love, longing for completion. Interaction with the forms that connects the dots between the connection between. Diotima"s ladder proper method on how to love, and there are a series of steps if you"re taught properly. Attraction to a specific body (something beautiful in this body) The beauty that was attracting you in the first step of the ladder also share some beauty that is attracting you in a similar way. Beauty is not just in bodies, there is beauty in the abstract (literature, non- bodies) Conclude: what"s attracted you all along was not the specific individual, or completion of bodies, but the intellectual quest for the form or essence of beauty. Notion of the abstract or form of body, the forms exists in the form of the intellectual, and it"s almost as though the latter is pulling us up to it. Interaction between the concrete and perfect essence is.