PHILOS 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Agathon, Penia, Cardinal Virtues
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Diotima"s analysis of eros: best approached in terms of certain ideas she wants to pick up from speeches of. Aristophanes": love springs from a lack, what lovers want is obscure to them. Object of desire is obscure: this idea is from plato"s perspective that one has to realize about love and erotic desire that can be easily missed. Ideas from agathon: love is a response to beauty. Beauty doesn"t play a role in aristophanes" speech: the wisdom of love is a kind of creativity. Agathon characterizes deity as having the four cardinal virtues recognized by greeks: when describing wisdom of eros as poetic wisdom, creative wisdom. This will be important to what socrates and diotima wants to say about. Diotima"s genealogy of eros: love has genealogy from parents penia and poros. Poros: resource, means, way, what diotima is trying to say about eros is how the two sides t together.
