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284 - John Vervaeke and Jacob Howland - The Symposium

The Symbolic World

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The Myth of Erosophanes

The erosophanes myth says that human beings originally were these circle people Was spherical we had forearms fore legs two faces four ears four eyes Face is facing opposite and we rolled all around right. The result is that our have seek each other out And we we long for our other half now. This is a big difference From Socrates account of eros Because in Elseb in our stuff needs account of erOS we seek the other half to make ourselves whole but we're seeking our original selves. regarded as the object of their eros that that prevents him from seeking beauty and truth Hard to say.

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