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Exam 1 Flashcards

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What happens in the intro of the Symposium?

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Platos writing is a retelling of Agathons Party by Apollodorus to a friend; Apollodorus was told about the party through Aristodemus who was actually there

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What is the Symposium about?

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the whole dialogue is to reach the question of “What is Love?”

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How are Platos writings/stories done?

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Platos writings are not historical (they are slightly fictional); Plato used real people (such as Socrates) as characters that he used in his dialogue

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Socrates

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did QnA’s to find answers; looked for progress not final answers; famous for not knowing anything

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Socratic Wisdom

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socratic ignorance; knowing when you do not know

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What does Apollodorus and Aristodemus seem to confuse the love of philosophy with?

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love of Socrates; they are confusing their love for philosophy with Socrates because he helped teach tehm

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Agathon invites Socrates to sit next to him so that Socrates may touch him and give him his wisdom…how does Socrates respond?

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that Agathon is wise and wishes that he would gain some of Agathons wisdom; socrates says that we can not transfer wisdom, we must do the searching for ourselves

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Phaedruses Speech

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if you are in love you are more likely to be a virtuous person; praises love and its effects on us; inspires courageous acts and honor; the Lover is closer to godlike that the beloved; boy love and women love is vulgar

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Palseneus Speech

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goes into benefits and dangers of love;vulgar love can lead to ruin;honorable love can lead to honor and courage; critcizes older man and boy lover system; two gods of love and two kinds of love (harmful and hurtful); love is not good or bad it depends on how its used/goal; misogny elements; noble vs. common love; only virtue makes love acceptable we need to be virtuous first to be able to properly love

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Eryximachis Speech

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music, nature, etc all display the distinction pausanias made; base just means chaotic, unstable, noble means stabilized, organized; says love is involved with everything including physics; harmony is noble love, stabilized; vulgar love would be unorganized, disharmony

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Aristophanes Speech

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originally 3 genders (male, female, androgynous) they got cut in half by Zeus and we now seek our other half; love requires sense of lack and sense of connection; we cannot point to something that drives us: its not something we can see (because we split so long ago); we want to become one again and we look for our other halves; uses it to explain homosexual and heterosexual

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Agathons Speech

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Agathons name means “the good man” he is young, attractive, etc; Agathon uses a method for his speech: do not praise effects of X before understanding what X is; uses flowery language and does not really say a whole lot; says love is all the things Agathon is young, attractive, the best; says love possess everything that is beautiful and good

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Dialectic

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conversation in which parties are all interested in discovering the truth and conduct a search for truth

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What is dialectics not?

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apologetics and eristics

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Apologetics

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a conversation in which one partner or group, X, tries to persuade the other, Y, of something X already firmly believes is true

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Eristics

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a conversation in which one partner or group, X, tries to defeat another partner or group, Y, by using any method available in disregard of the truth

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What are the commitments that Agathon makes about love?

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love is beautiful and in no way ugly; love is love of Something, call it X; Love is a type of desire for X

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What does Diotima teach Socrates?

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somethings are not completely beautiful are also not fully ugly; non-knowledge is not full ignorance; some non-gods (non-mortals) are not fully mortal

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What is Diotima’s theory of love?

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love is always after the beautful; if love is not perfect beauty it can still be beautiful by participation; love is always chasing beauty; love is beautiful by participation in going after the beauty

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Double Ignorance

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someone who is ignorant and does not realize they are ignorant

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Diotimas Ladder of Love

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1) desire to renew the presence of bodily goods forever such as the physical drive to reproduce; 2) desire to renew the presence of psychical goods forever ex 1) lower types- artworks, political movements, constitutions ex2) higher types-monumental discoveries of timeless truths; 3) the final mystery is even greater

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The Gist of Diotimas Speech

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love is after eternal goodness; it drives us to seek a beauty within which to reproduce ourselves and our cultures; moving us up the ladder to the highest beauty itself without body or death

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Gist of Alcibiades

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the flamboyant comic relief and alternative to Socrates and Diotima; love is about passion and bodily attachment

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ADD SOME BETTER CARDS

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What are some of the main point of a Epicurean life?

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happiest life is a minimalist life; do what you need to do to stay alive and have a stable/good mental state; minimize pain maximize pleasure

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How does Epicurus view pleasure?

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is the whole point of life

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How does Epicurus view materialist?

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mind, soul and body is all material; every organism die and decomposes; we just need to sustain ourself and have small pleasures

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How did Epicurus view the “big city”?

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that it was painful; we needed to escape the city and flee to a simpler life in the country

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Who are two Epicurus “fanboys”?

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Carl Marx and Thomas Jefferson

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What are some of Epicurean famous beliefs?

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do not fear god(s), do not worry about death, what is good is easy to get, what is terrible is easy to endure

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What was Epicuru’s beliefs about the gods?

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they are not what the mass believes them to be; they are happy and content; they are not trying to smite us; the gods should not be our desires

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What was Epicuru;s beliefs about death?

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there is nothing good or bad about death; when we die it is over there is no afterlife or nothing therefore we should not worry about it;

33
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How does Epicurus see pleasures?

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we should go after all of our pleasure; no pleasure is bad however if the consequences can harm us or permantely affect us they are not good; we should strive to find pleasure in basic things; luxury is not a pleasure because it leads to pain; pleasure is the only thing we seek totally for its own sake; but we do not choose every pleasure because they can lead to pain, harm, damage etc; eliminating pain is equal to achieving pleasure; pleasure is getting rid of pain

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How does epicurus view things that are unachieveable?

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wanting things that are unachievable (such as immortality) makes us miserable

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Epicurus and the Senses

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senses never lie; how we interpret our senses may be wrong but the senes themselves are not wrong

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Epicurus and Forms

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he contradicts plato (who thinks that we should seek a form that can not be seen); Epicurus thinks that we should sharpen our senses and what we are actually sensing

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Epicurus and Natural Science

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we should care about science to clear up dellusions/illusions (such as immortality, death etc); we would not need/want science if we did not want things we can not have (such as immortality); science takes away alarm- if a storm comes it is not angry gods, it is just a storm which science says. So, you are no longer afraid of angry gods due to science

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Epicurus and Atoms

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he is a atomist (believes we are all made of a bunch of atoms arranged in a unique way)

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Atoms (in the greek sense)

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all the inquality; but have different shape, size, resistance, weight

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Aggregations (in the greek sense)

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atoms joined together to yield aggregations, bodies, souls, secondary qualities; everything is a combination of atoms

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What does Epicurus believe about the world coming to be the way it is?

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he believed that our world just happened to come about by chance

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Epicurus Logical Argument about Atoms

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1) object (pen) is a real and finite things, 2) now I divide this pen 3) and then divide those divisions 4) try to conceive of the repition of step 3- this would mean you could divide infinity; this counters 1 because you can not divide something infinitely because the object is finite and have a set number of parts

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How does Epicurus view freedom?

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everything happens by chance and is random which is not free; therefore we can not truly be free; negative freedom- escape/flee the pain

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Epicurus and Desire

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pain = desiring; to desire is to lack what you want this is painful so all desire is painful; all desire is for pleasure; to get the pleasure is to lose the desire/pain

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Epicurus was not…

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a individualist; friends are important and allies are important but you should not desire one person and let that desire ruin you

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Natural and Necessary Desires

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desires such as hunger, thirst; they are natural and relatively easy to fill

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Unnecessary Natural Desires

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natural to want but it is not necessary to have; such as sex or luxury things (

48
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Unnatural and Vain Desires

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power, fame, society to build a statue of you, glory etc

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Epicurus and Justice

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for example, they said to steal things because it would benefit you but could have bad consequences and normally would not work out well so you should not do it

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What is the basic idea of Al-Kindi?

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our attitude towards the world is what matters and it is entirely up to us; getting offended by someone is because you let them offend you (basically you took it personally even though you did not have to); you have a lot more control over your actions than you think you do

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Kindi and Desire

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we should not get attached to material things; the true king is the one with internal strength and God, not a bunch of materialistic things; should not be attached to unique things or become so attached to materials that it would destroy us if we lost it

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Does Diotima think love drives us to be good?

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yes, for diotima, love is the good that we are seeking

53
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Agathon gives the first speech that…

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talks about what love is first and then its effects

54
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Alcibiades….

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contradicts Socrates who thinks we need to move past bodily love but Alcibiades says that love is bodily; Alcibiades was left disappointed and confused because he loved Socrates in a bodily way; criticizes diotmia/Socrates of being escapist

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How are Ditomia/Socrates presenting Love?

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with the theory of the forms; we start out as “that beautiful thing” but as we rise up the ladder we come to know what beauty (the form) is

56
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Why is Love not a God?

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because it is after the eternal beauty but it is not eternal itself so it is inbetween

57
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What is the big view of the Agathon/Socrates Refutation

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Agathon thinks love has every beauty and lacks some beauty, which contradicts itself; love can not be entirely beautiful and not ugly because he says love has to lack beauty

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Epicurus and Natural Science

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the better you understand the physical worls the less you will be afriad of the physical world; you do not think the Gods are after you if a storm comes, the storm is science

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Epicurus and The Gods

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he thinks we are aware there are gods but they have no relationship with us and they have no impact on the world; they are most at peace and do not interfere

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Where does Al-Kindi say to find your identity in?

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find your identity in the things that can not be taken from us which makes it eternal

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Epicurus and Negative Pleasure

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negative in the sense that the desire/pain is being eliminated

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Epicurus and Justice

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we should not steal/we should be just because it keeps you from negative consequenes; so justice initself is not good/bad it is the consequences that make them bad

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