PHILOS 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Conjoined Twins, Perfectly Clear, Agathon
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Rst handful of speeches we meet are helpfully looked at as each presenting a picture of the question why is love something good? . Love > virtue > happiness: one can discern in each of the opening speeches that somehow love makes us better people, conduces to virtue, which somehow conduces to happiness, last time discussed phaedrus" speech. Praises love as some kind of great god: love serves as guide, 178c. In order to live successful life as human being, one requires certain kind of guidance. Special kind of guidance is best supplied by love because it works best to implant in the human soul good values. Sense we have of shame at shameful things and pride in noble things comes from love: human beings in relationships. Thought is that opinions of some people matter to us far more than others: far more painful to be seen doing something shameful by certain people.
