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284 - John Vervaeke and Jacob Howland - The Symposium

The Symbolic World

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The Secret of Asceticism

Socrates starts with an internal guidance system. He doesn't need external Moderation or externally imposed like you know now you guys are going to walk upright. The ultimate object of euros is beyond intelligibility, right? And he calls it the beautiful here. You can't look at the sun You can't you know good is beyond being being but so when Socrates looks at another human being what does he see? He sees the glimmer first he sees the but he's I mean we have that ladder of euros and that's that's an articulated Ascent. But if he had slept with alsobites  that's a very aggressive act right Also bodies like i'm gonna sleep with him

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