Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture 7: CLC 1020 Plato's Symposium
10 Mar 2016
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Music: carminho (portugese fado singer: fado music was born is lisbon, portugal. Socrates 470-399 bce: we have nothing by socrates, would be strongly against the style of teaching we pursue today. He would prefer a one-to-one conversation between teacher and student . Accused of leading the youth of athens astray via knowledge. Sentenced to death by hemlock poisoning, feels the poison numb his body as he dies. Plato 427/8-347 bce: plato systemizes socrates" words, because of plato, we have knowledge of socrates, huge admirer of socrates, what is more real: the actual object or the idea of the object. The object itself does not correspond with what the object is, but the perfect idea of the object the essence of it is what is real. Tuesday, october 6, 2015: plato"s greatest works: the symposium, phaedrus, the republic. All of knowledge is a return to knowledge that has been lost: Socrates refuses to defend himself in his sentencing.
