PHILOS 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eudaimonia, Hedonism

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Some say happiness is pleasure: bodily, fame? power, honor, morally virtuous actions, greek hedonists. Plato and aristotle will disagree: diotima thinks that to understand love and eros one needs to see that all human beings have ultimate desire to be happy. Pursuing loving relationships is intimately connected to our happiness. Diotima is described as having prophetic powers and awareness of. Aristophanes" speech that comes after: wholeness isn"t desired in itself but instead for the goodness in it (our happiness, role happiness plays in diotima"s account. #1: main point is this: ever desire for good things i. e. , for happiness is supreme. Wednesday, october 18, 2017 and treacherous love [er s] But diotima extends it outside of sexuality. All desires of good things, happiness, is eros. Phenomenon of eros is much more widespread than interpersonal, sexual desire: in general sense, eros is a kind of standing desire we all have, analogy in greek.

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