POLI 240 Lecture 9: 29
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To love something is to love the whole thing. A passionate man should not forget that all boys in the bloom of youth somehow manage to sting and arouse a passionate lover of boys, and seem to to merit his attention and passion and devotion. Love completely as a whole: if you love being a student, do not just love the courses that you like, love every single thing about being a student. In particular, the philosopher is a lover of the. Knowledge comes from an acquaintance with the forms and their various appearances. Belief is an ability to see appearances, but not the forms behind them: occupies a middle ground between knowledge (which is knowledge of what is) and ignorance (which deals with what is not). Appearance is neither nothing, nor what is, but something in between. Lovers of appearance (belief) are properly called.
