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.
Is a written dialogue the best way to learn from philosopher Agnes Callard?
If so, what does that say about philosophy? Is Plato’s Symposium about love or mere intoxication? If good people lived forever, would they be less bored than the bad people? Should we fear death? Is parenting undertheorized? Must philosophy rely on refutation? Should we read the classics? Is Jordan Peterson’s moralizing good? Should we take Socrates at his word? Is Hamlet a Cartesian? Are we all either Beethoven or Mozart people? How do we get ourselves to care about things we don’t yet care about? To what should we aspire to?
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