PHIL 259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Practical Reason
30 Jan 2017
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Compare aristophanes and alcibiades: the subversion of practical reason by bodily contingency. Aristophanes account meets vlastos" criteria but has problems: vulnerability to contingency (vs. self-sufficiency, union impossible; desire self-annihilating. If y loves x, then y desires x. If y desires x, the y lacks x. If y has x, y does not desire x: therefore, if y has x, y does not love x. If y lacks beauty, y is not beautiful. The problem with 7: the lover does not lack beauty altogether; she lacks the specific beautiful loved one (i. e. , socrates) Socrates" assumption: all beauty is uniform (the form of beauty) (p. 290) Ascending the ladder is a matter of prudence and practical reason. How does socrates exemplify the life of one who has made the ascent? (p. 295) Alcibiades" speech: a particular life, knowledge based on experience, told through visual images.
