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213 - The Divine Comedy: Love in Heaven and in Hell

The Symbolic World

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What Is Erotic Love?

All men, though in a vague way, apprehend a good, their souls may rest in and desire it. Each therefore strives to reach his chosen end. And so everybody, in them we have an intuition of that which is good, and that is what makes us move. So this is very simple, like, it's not. It does end up in a very kind of deep, theological, mystical idea. But at the basis, it's the idea that, i'm hungry, i eat an apple, and i find rest in that good, right? I'm tired, i go to sleep. I find rest inthat good. We move into erotic love with the desire to find

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