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284 - John Vervaeke and Jacob Howland - The Symposium

The Symbolic World

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The Last of Them of the Wine

Kierkegaard loves to sort of have these kind of Asymptotically approaching lines, you know Christianity and Socratic. There's a sense in which if if i'm just Thrawn to the other rather than participating in the selfhood of the other there's still aggression at the heart of it. It's only in agape Where that where the resolution could finally come to be seen because there i am it looks like violence because i'm trading the other But it's exactly the opposite of violence i am giving myself over to the full giving and participating in the other becoming a self Beyond me and other than me but nevertheless in relationship with me.

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