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Symposium - Classic Illustrated Edition

Plato

* Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings by renowned artists, Symposium concerns itself at one level with the genesis, purpose and nature of love, and is the origin of the concept of Platonic love.

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Philosophize This!

This fictional book depicts a dinner party where Athenian figures discuss love, with Diotima's speech on love as a progression through different stages being particularly noteworthy. The podcast summarizes Diotima's concept of love as ascending a ladder, beginning with bodily love and culminating in a love of the form of beauty.

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the symposium was a fictional book written by the Greek philosopher Plato about a dinner party. It's a dinner party where various noteworthy figures from Athens at the time all meet up to talk about a...

— Episode: Episode #093 ... Nietzsche pt. 4 - Love

Episode: Episode #093 ... Nietzsche pt. 4 - Love

This fictional book depicts a dinner party where Athenian figures discuss love, with Diotima's speech on love as a progression through different stages being particularly noteworthy. The podcast summarizes Diotima's concept of love as ascending a ladder, beginning with bodily love and culminating in a love of the form of beauty.

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the symposium was a fictional book written by the Greek philosopher Plato about a dinner party. It's a dinner party where various noteworthy figures from Athens at the time all meet up to talk about a particular subject.

Diatema told Socrates about how she sees love as sort of a progression. It's a progression ascending up rungs of a ladder where throughout your various experiences with love in your life, you go through a number of phases.

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