ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Silenus, Agathon
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Promise to deliver anti-encomium: truth rather than romanticizing love, others" = attractive - looking at the surface and physical beauty in love, comprehensive understanding. Agathon - questions: desire is not possession - love = experience of longing for what"s not in possession, the good = the beautiful. Eros = middle ground between mortality and immortality; spirits, messenger, interconnecting figure. Allegory (extended metaphors/system of metaphors extended into abstract systems) of eros - love = bound to love knowledge. Love = paradoxical product (having everything and having nothing) - contradictory figure. Love -> happiness -> good (can pertain to any desire and aspirations in life) Love -> pursuit toward fulfillment, happiness, immortality - physical (i. e. family, genes) and mental (philosophical, spread ideas, fame, glory) procreation in attractive medium - close to divine state. Learn to love physical then mental through medium of philosophy. Directed through beauty toward the good (end result) Progressive, begins w/ love of individuals/body -> mind (different forms)
