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HoP 032 - Frisbee Sheffield on Platonic Love

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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What Is the Desire for Happiness?

The aim of eros for plato, is happiness and flourishing. He would recognize lots of different desires and attitudes as being eros. And then he would say, some of these objects will actually give you happiness, and others won't. But that would also mean you should be moving away from other people towards the forms. So i is kind of obvious that wine is not going to make you happy. It's no mere metterfor ther if we ap at socratess point,. That eros, for him, is a phenomenon of desire and action in quite general terms.

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