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284 - John Vervaeke and Jacob Howland - The Symposium

The Symbolic World

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Socrates's Equanimity Is the Preservation of Humanity

Socrates's equanimity is the preservation of his humanity Even as it's torn between all of these extremes of even talking about that's what I'm also hearing the argument drawing together. The vertical dimension is not going to work if it's conceived in the way our estophanes conceives it But because what's on the top is Zeus and the Zeus is just force It's just a big rapist on the top of the mountain Right exactlyExactly. So you've got to have a socratic or religious conception of of this vertical There has to be transcendence up here and only then are you going to get this, you know And today I'm afraid again.

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