IUF 1000 Lecture 10: Sharing the Good Life
30 Sep 2015
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Why is sharing the good life important: the good life among humans is difficult to imagine achieving in pure isolation. Our individual conceptions of the good life are forged by dialogue with others. The symposium: written around 385-360 bc by plato, plato was a student of socrates (470-399 bc, much of what we know about socrates comes from the writings of plato. Physical love is considered a lower form of the two because it is more animalistic. Once cut the two halves become heartbroken so zeus has a new plan to turn around their genitalia so they can connect: so when people talk about soulmates and someone"s other half its. A desire that led us upward on from the lower to higher forms of love. Diotima"s ladder of love: love is an ascent from the lower to higher forms of love from the body, through the mind to beauty itself, the rungs of the ladder from lowest to highest:
