PHIL 259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pederasty In Ancient Greece, Agathon, Yang Mi
17 Jan 2017
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Shifts, with aristophanes, from benefits of love to the nature of love. Agathon characterizes the god himself: youngest, most beautiful and virtuous of the gods: any benefits arising from love are a result of the virtuous and beautiful nature of love. Socrates presses him: what does love desire: agathon"s answer: love desires, and is the desire for, beauty. Agrees eros is a search disagrees abut object. Love lacks beauty and so seeks it; he is in love with what is beautiful, and wisdom is extremely beautiful : key point: the pursuit of wisdom is motivated by love. Contrast aristophanes: love does not desire what is its own, one"s other half, but that which is good, beautiful, and wise, to overcome its lack. The lover is the seeker of not the educator in wisdom and virtue: eromenos is now the pursuer, the lover.
