213 - The Divine Comedy: Love in Heaven and in Hell
The Symbolic World
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The Love That Moves Up Is Compassionate
Socrates is constantly, if you read the text, it's wonderful. And socrates is constantly receiving that, receiving alcibiades desire. And turning it towards higher goods. But in the bigger story of the symposium and greek culture, there is a sense in which Alcibiades was not able to temper his loves. If he had learned to moderate his love and moderate his passions, he might have been able to let turn them towards higher Goods. He wouldn't have gone the dark root that he has, that he has in in the story of greece. So i would say that that was basically, like, laa, the the basic thought that i
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