HUM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Odysseus, Agathon
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Socrates speech: love is the love of something, love desires what it does not have, this applies to qualities which are not permanent, love desires beautiful things, therefore love needs beauty and does not have it. Good things are beautiful, love needs good things too. The beauty of souls is greater than the beauty of bodies. Most common: pausanias: introduces the theme of virtue that runs throughout the speeches, particulary becoming important in socrates (diatemas) speech. Societal rules play an important part in the cultivation of virtue (heavely love), its like. Diotemas speech where the lover appreciates the beauty of different laws and customs. Pausanias establishes beautiful deeds as standard of goodness and these actions are performed in accordance with an unwritten law. While this law differs in the ends for the lover and beloved (aiming for success and virtue, respectively), for both the end justifies the means.
