Becoming Antifragile
Becoming Antifragile
IJ Makan
037: How to Find Eternal Beauty - Plato
54 minutes Posted Jul 14, 2024 at 10:45 am.
Introduction
Excerpt from ‘Symposium’ by Plato
What’s happening in the Symposium
Are you not whole until you find your other half?
Why Socrates thinks everyone is wrong about love
Phaedrus’s notion of self-sacrificial love
Different types of love
Socrates correcting Agathon on Eros
Love is of something that you’re desire
Love in on continuum ferrying between the immortal and mortal realm
How Diotima initiates Socrates through the ladder of love
The Beautiful and Tao
The Beautiful makes life meaningful, become a philosopher
Challenges
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Lessons from ‘Symposium’ by Plato
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates, and a teacher of Aristotle. His works laid the foundational stones of Western philosophy and science
The "Symposium" is one of Plato's most famous dialogues, set during a banquet attended by a group of notable Athenian men. The dialogue is a series of speeches the participants give, each extolling the nature and virtues of Eros (Love).
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47: 15 - Humans seek immortality, true immortality is found in birthing virtues