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Plato's Symposium

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Socrates and the Disruption of Al-Sibaidis

"Al-Sibaidis to disrupt proceedings absolutely so there's this sudden hammering at the ball and a very beautiful glamorous but very drunk al-Sibiedis stag is in" "He sort of brings in both comedy but also tragedy I think to the symposium it's a very complex speech and Plato's doing a lot of things with it," he says. 'I'm going to tell you about my love for Socrates and he gives us the sense of the joy and the pain of passionately loving an individual who you perceive to be a unique and irreplaceable individual'

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