269 - John Vervaeke - After Socrates
The Symbolic World
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Plato's Critique of Aristophanes
There are some elements of the dialogue which gets pulled out sometimes and shown as being exemplary of what Plato thought. But then you find contradiction if you if you see it, that right? And so right in the symposium, you get this silly myth of the with the round people like there's a logo. So do you want to get this like really silly myth of these circuit round people and like the two opposites that joined together, which is weird because the modern people are now sometimes using that as a actuallike myth That ancient people believe it when you read it in the text is clear that this is they're making fun of they're makingfun of this.
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