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Plato's Symposium

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Is Plato's Philosophy a Minoritarian View?

In each of the speeches, there is ironic twists. I think including Socrates and his D.A. team of myth, I think there's an irony in invoking a woman to teach Socrates the art of love. You might want to have roughly 50% of the population to give their side, but the minoritarian is excluded. Women being that minoritarian, again, not because of numbers, statistics, but because of positions of power and standards. If the male is taken as the standard, so that is interesting that Socrates allows this priestess to speak for the feminine in a certain way.

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