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284 - John Vervaeke and Jacob Howland - The Symposium

The Symbolic World

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The Assent of Socrates

There's a continuity between In the eristophanes myth the seeking for wholeness That gets taken up in diatema's uh assent. The al-sabati speech reminds us about something important Um Muchnik I think makes a good case for this in the tragedy reason Is that there's nothing necessary to the assent and it's contingent all the way along. It's like here's a person who literally hangs out with Socrates Deeply attracted to Socrates wants to be one with Socrates probably even in a sexual manner And yet he doesn't go through the anagogic assent.

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