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1.3
I didn't take notes for 1.2 :-(

The Good/Primal Principle/Term is the end of Life's purpose, and one must be initiated into figuring out that they need to pursue it
3 classes of temperament
- metaphysician
- lover
- musician
-- only the last two need additional guidance to enter the path toward the Term, metaphysician's temperament does it instinctively

Two stages toward the Term, lower and Intellectual

Musician
- drawn by beauty
- external things
- measure and shapely pattern
- design
----> he must be shown the Beauty of Philosophy

Lover
- similar to musician, but for immaterialities
- He must recognize the beauty in art, science and virtue
----> From the virtues he should be led to the Intellectual Principle

Metaphysician
- only needs a guide
- he learns math easily, and does so to develop the skill of abstract thinking
- predisposed to understanding morality
- after being in touch with math, sciences, he should learn Dialectic

Dialectic concerns what is Good and not-Good, as well as all the particulars of each
- it can learn everything about Ideal Forms, Authentic-Existence, and Categories-of-Being
- it creates sciences from it's findings
- Dialectic knows propositions, preparations of the Couplement, truth and falsity, uses SPs to falsify, and leaves the "precisions of process to what other science may care for such exercises". Seems sympathetic to Aristotle.
- Dialectic <----------->Arithmetic

You can only master Dialectic if you are in touch with lower virtues
- both then are mastered together