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The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (Hackett Classics)

by Epicurus

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The Symposium

by Plato

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Ryan Romo said: " As always, Plato gives an interesting dialogue but this time between friends at a party eulogies of the god love . From Phaedrus Saying that love causes the greatest action among people and the gods will give the greatest admiration to them and bring As always, Plato gives an interesting dialogue but this time between friends at a party eulogies of the god love . From Phaedrus Saying that love causes the greatest action among people and the gods will give the greatest admiration to them and bringing shame to a lover is of greater pain then of a parent and the bond lovers have each other could virtually defeat the whole human race for abandoning that lover is an active coward greater than any. Then Pausanias discerning the difference between common and heavenly love. With common love being given to anybody in discriminately while heavenly love is attracted to partners with vigor and intelligence and still stays in love even after the bloom of the body or astrophanes speech about how humans were originally 2 humans fused together but after they attacked Olympus Zeus didn’t want to destroy them so he cut them in two and now the two separate beings look for each other to reunite And your other half is shown to you when you were overwhelmed with affection and love or agathon saying that love it’s not a God rather a spirit and his character is one of of sensitivity that does not go for rough features looking for the gentle side and he has courage or Diotima stating that he was born at the gods resource and poverty having the nature of both and desire is something that you can’t for something that you already have along with her statement of the forms the first you were attracted to somebody with a good body then you’re attracted to all good bodies and then you go on a search for true beauty finding the form of beauty which leads to the form of knowledge freeing you from the attachment of particular the beauty form has no hands or any part of the body or peace of knowledge or somewhere on the earth it appears itself as itself always a single form and all other beautiful things share its character. And then finally the hot mess. Alcibiades crashes the party with a beautiful eulogy about the spark of interest he had for Socrates and testing his character in warfare as someone with stoic and endurable character in times of chaos along with words of fear intelligence that draws the minds of people like musicians do with their flutes . ...more "

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