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Episode #004 ... Plato

Philosophize This!

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What Is Love?

Plato writes about a fancy dinner party where several people take turns, after dinner, giving their thoughts on and trying to get to one these deep socratic definitions of the concept of love. So aristophanes, being a playwright that writes comedy, fittingly gives a quasi humorous and metaphorical account for what love is. He talks about a time when men and women were actually fused together. They had two heads, four arms, four legs. We were actually in a spherical shape, and we would roll around everywhere. Apparently there were three sexes back then too. You could be all male, all female, and then androgenous ar like a hermaphrodite, like

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