
Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Path to Beauty
I think this, you know, we're kind of back to like the cave in the Republic or something that the beauty of the beloved is a shadow of true beauty. But it's by experiencing the shadow of beauty and the beloved that one can be either reminded or start seeking the absolute beauty outside the cave as it were. And the same thing is in the ladder of love and the symposium,. It starts with the love of beautiful bodies. Right. I don't think it's a coincidence that he is not nearly steps along the way. There's something fundamentally the same on the, I guess it would be the kind of madness it is that he's talking about where you are as Adam
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