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Plato, Symposium - Love As Desire For Lost Unity (Aristophanes)
Sadler's Lectures
English - May 30, 2021 22:27 - 9 minutes - 7.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love.
This lecture focuses specifically on the speech made by Aristophanes. It focuses on his classic interpretation of Love as a desire for a lost unity, one possessed when we were formerly united with our "missing half".
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