Plato, Symposium | Politics and the Love of Men (Aristophanes' Speech) | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This video focuses on Plato's work, the Symposium, and specifically on the speech made by Aristophanes. In setting out the conception of love as desire for one's missing half, he discusses the original "three sexes" of human beings, and how in our divided state these explain male-female, male-male, and female-female attraction

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