CS204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Platonic Love, Dialectic
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By virtue of its reciprocity and intervention, dialogue is taken to be superior to the one-way communication of mass media and mass culture. Dialogue can be tyrannical and dissemination can be just. Dialogue is but one of many forms of communication. Jesus: open dissemination advised to whom it may concern. Transition drom orality to literary in greek culture. > recall org"s account of orality and literary. > worries about the deprivation presence of writing. For socrates, the issue is not just the meeting of the minds, but the coupling of desires. eros not transmission, is the chief principle of communication. Lysios himself being present-the dialogues theme is the disembodied presence of an absent other. An absent of the eros of the body (present) > socrates: two kings of desire: irrational and rational. Asymmetrical communication relations-taking a lover exposes a young man to all kinds of potential harm.
