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284 - John Vervaeke and Jacob Howland - The Symposium

The Symbolic World

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The Myth of Socrates

Aristophanes is essentially saying you've got chaos like he see it right you've got cast now you have to have order Where does order come from? It comes from law namos it comes from custom it comes from the olympians That is to say what happens when they're cut in half? Aristophanes says then they had to walk upright or sauce, right? So you have like orthodoxa or the orthodoxy, right? They now look what happens here Uh, I actually want to suggest at this point that well, I want to go back to what I hinted at earlier Which is Socrates is kind of like a circle person. He's sort of in touch with reality

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