Philosophy 3003F/G Lecture : Plato's Symposium

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Provides an ontological account of the forms, as well as epistemological account of how we come about to know the forms. We go through a slow process to grasp the idea of beauty. We fall in love with someone, and literally they are good looking (physically) - not metaphorical beauty. When you are just in love with one person you run the risk of associating beauty purely with that person. Recognizing beautiful in the non-physical; the beauty in character. In that we recognize the importance of committing ourselves to better beauty in people"s character, through laws and institutions. Not beautiful at one time and ugly at another, not beautiful in relation in to some and ugly in relation to others, not beautiful to some and not to others, etc. always beautiful. Through the ladder it looks like we acquire through empiricism. A to b: shadows, images; known through imagination, opinions. B to c: material particulars; known through vision.

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