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Plato's Symposium
In Our Time: Philosophy
Plato's Female Female List
Plato brought in a female fictional character at this point because it was said that a female pipe player would be distracting and they wouldn't be able to have a proper philosophic conversation. It's really also important that she's got this religious function because she's going to take Eros into a very religious dimension with the language of the mystery religions. She has this extraordinary claim it's one of the most extraordinary claims in Plato which is that all humans are pregnant both in body and in soul. We need the inspiration of erotic love and a guide like Deautama to help us get these embryos out of us go to Frisbee.
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