PHI 2380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Agathon
6 Mar 2015
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If alcibiades was interested in pursuing wisdom for himself, socrates would help him. Lover of socrates rather than lovers of wisdom/philosophy: aristodemus and apollodorus neither actually practice philosophy. Socrates: socrates doesn"t want to be seen as a god. He just wants to pursue the wisdom and beauty that he himself recognizes he lacks. Plato: beginning of the phaedo we learn that socrates has been waiting in prison for his execution for a while. 2015-03-04: the athenians were required to send 7 boys and 7 girls to be sacrificed in crete to the. It"s physical impossible that things really happened the way plato depicts them: plato has been writing poetry to pass the time in prison, his dreams telling him to pursue art. But now he thinks it might be poetry: evenus is a poet he"s worried about the competition, socrates tells evenus not to worry about it. Death is defined as the separation of the soul from the body.
