RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Socratic Dialogue, Platonic Love, Ancient Greek
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Love can anchor, and root our being. Religion, especially monotheism, and even more especially monotheism that hasn"t been sweetened by the pretence that god is an all-good, all forgiving, all tolerant, all protective father, and has so much to teach us about it . Non sexual relationship (in a colloquial sense) In ancient greek, means love of wisdom. Socrates asks the other persons views- asks them questions- then shows that they are inconsistent, or unreasonable- do not make sense in light of the facts or the information at hand. However, it is important to note: what came to be called western philosophy developed out of the ancient greek tradition, which was not concerned with god in the same way that the. In greece, symposium was not a meeting in a dank university lecture hall where thoughts secretly turn to sex . The st extended discussion of love in western philosophy, written in 360 bc.
