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Logic IV. 52
love. To love should be joined the practive of philosophy. Eryximachus treats the subject from a physicians point of view. Harmony he says is the reconciliation of elements which once agreed and then disagreed. Aristophanes hearts of natural affinities. Agathon makes an [encomium?] of the god. Socrates says that love is not beautiful, but simply has beauty for its object and that this is the Summum Conum. "Diotima of Mantinea" taught that love is not a god but the intermediary between gods and men, not wise but a lover of wisdon. Love is desire for the everlasting possession of the beautiful which is the good. He is the wish to procreate beauty for generation is a soul of immortality. All this are made immortal by a law of succssion. The highter mysteries of love require us to forsake the individual for the general for the spiritual universe of truth and beauty. Whoever perserveres along that path,

Logic IV. 52
love. To love should be joined the practive of philosophy. Eryximachus treats the subject from a physicians point of view. Harmony he says is the reconciliation of elements which once agreed and then disagreed. Aristophanes hearts of natural affinities. Agathon makes an [encomium?] of the god. Socrates says that love is not beautiful, but simply has beauty for its object and that this is the Summum Conum. "Diotima of Mantinea" taught that love is not a god but the intermediary between gods and men, not wise but a lover of wisdon. Love is desire for the everlasting possession of the beautiful which is the good. He is the wish to procreate beauty for generation is a sould of immortality. All this are made immortal by a law of succssion. The highter mysteries of love require us to forsake the individual for the general for the spiritual