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Plato's Symposium

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Socrates and Agathon

There's clearly some rippled du Blonde trend going on here with his fellow symposias partly just bringing in another character allows the question and answer that's been going on between Socrates and Agathon to continue. then we go to come to Socrates Angie Hoppen has been moaning that he's been left to the last and we'll have nothing to say and produces the longest most complicated and most memorable speech in the book. He says that he knows about love because he was taught by a woman called Diotima now what's her significance?

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