HUM 101W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Platonic Love, Agathon, Eryximachus

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUM 101W
• Professor: Samir Gandesha

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Week05: essays: articulate thesis, three strong supporting arguments. Find two or three passages from the text that will support those arguments. Conclusion. (love in antigone is wild and reckless and leads to tragedy. Symposium: higher love, even when it ends in tragedy, brings peace, calm, and freedom, (ii) excessive nature of love in antigone: plato"s symposium: Plato trying to bring heraclitus and parmenides together with the allegory of the cave. What is symposium: a drinking party in a man cave. It is called an androne (where men gather and assemble). The wine being drunk is somewhat diluted to maintain consciousness for discussion. Tragedy emerges in festivals to the greek god dionysus. Socrates to be superior to this poet who is susceptible to tragedy: what is the relationship between (cid:498)philosophy(cid:499) and (cid:498)tragedy(cid:499): Philosopher but does not know the truth about himself. Pausanias: love is not one, but differentiated.