PHIL-105 FA2 Lecture 5: Lecture Notes 2/7/2017
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Documentary reaction paper worth 2 extra credit points. The telescope is what put her inn relationship with the stars and the sun but it is not the same as actually explaining what the telescope itself is to someone. This is what socrates is trying to say. Yes, we love things that are beautiful and it draws those things to our attention but love is not them, it is relational. You only desire that which you lack, you don"t desire what you already have. If love desires beauty and goodness than love cannot itself be beautiful because it wouldn"t desire beauty if it already had it. The space of tension that what you have could disappear. Love as daimonic (spirit that comes in goes) Love was born of drunken love meeting between wealth and poverty. Diotima seems to be describing socrates when she is describing love. He is basically describing himself as the most knowledgeable in loving.