28: Plato's Symposium, part 2: The Loveable Socrates
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Origins of Aros
In allegorical terms, love is the mediating force by which those with a great need find their resourcefulness to seek after that need. By dee personifying him, he can make eros, this force that's part of all things, that's literally shoots into and out of all things that are alive. We might consider the way that heraclitus uses the term logos, a natural pattern, a rhythm that moves through all things m but so the reason why aros makes possible all the things that the other speakers at the symposium attributed to his influence, such as pursuing virtue, or mastering an artor or craft, is that aros is the thing between ignorance and wisdom
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