Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything
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Socrates's and Alsomiety's Speeches?
Socrates's speech affects me the most intellectually. Alsomiety's speech is more moving to me. Most of the speeches have these long digressions from the topic of love. The one person who really focuses on love and gives you a compelling vision is Aristophanes. So we have this myth of love and Eros, which is at the center of society. But it's actually something we pretend we're much more interested in than what we really care about.
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