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Plato's Symposium
In Our Time: Philosophy
What Aristophanes Says About Love
Aristophanes' speech has become such a classic is that it actually claims to speak to our own experience. He tells a story in which once upon a time we weren't like we are now we were all double by which he means we had two faces on a single head. When they found their other half there was not much they could do with the other half so Zeus took pity on us and decided to move our genitals around for when you found your other half you could embrace him or her. Aristophanes finishes by saying uh if you know that's why we must pay due respect to love because love can do the greatest things for usLike it might help us find its love which
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