Comment Comment by A_Duck One thing we know is that few of the people debating this have actually read Plato's SymposiumA thing you can right now do is read it (1-2 hours): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1600/1600-h/1600-h.htm#link2...Or just the two sections in question:Aristophanes’ myth of split humans (7 minutes): https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/eros/platos-other-halfDiotima’s ladder of love (20 minutes) https://people.wku.edu/jan.garrett/103/jowett_symp_A.htm parent A_Duck 10 months ago
A thing you can right now do is read it (1-2 hours): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1600/1600-h/1600-h.htm#link2...
Or just the two sections in question:
Aristophanes’ myth of split humans (7 minutes): https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/eros/platos-other-half
Diotima’s ladder of love (20 minutes) https://people.wku.edu/jan.garrett/103/jowett_symp_A.htm