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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
A captivating exploration of love, philosophy, and human connection, and I can't believe it took me this long to dive into it! The setting—a lively party where various prominent figures take turns delivering speeches about love—keeps the pages turning with its mix of humor, wisdom, and passion. Each speech offers a unique perspective on love, from the intellectual to the wildly romantic, and the drunker the guests get, the more entertaining their musings become!!!
What really stood out to me was Alcibiades crush on Socrates. It was fascinating to see the contrast between Socrates’ rational approach to love and Alcibiades’ more impulsive, emotional yearning!!
What really stood out to me was Alcibiades crush on Socrates. It was fascinating to see the contrast between Socrates’ rational approach to love and Alcibiades’ more impulsive, emotional yearning!!
The Symposium by Plato is by far one of the most nonsense-ridden pieces of philosophy ever put to clay tablet. First, this text is only 64 pages long but feels like a year, and the length is only a mask for the amount of pure buffoonery and ridiculousness that hides behind these pages.
I'd like to talk about how this book talks about love, since it's the main topic of discussion here, and how it is so unserious that I almost had to burn the book halfway through. The various speeches about love usually revolve around these two things: "boyfriends" and spiritual deities. I myself am not a spiritual person nor do I practice anything related to the sort, so when I was reading this book the topics about how Love is an actual being with scarily childlike features and a conscience turned me off almost immediately. Now, I don't about you, but I am not a pedophile, so imagine my face when I read about how "Socrates is erotically attracted to young boys" and is "always in a state of excitement" around them. Egads! I personally wouldn't take any romantic advice from those who are at retirement age with boytoys, but to each his own.
The way this book is formatted is also a big irk of mine. Granted, this was made in some 300~ B.C., and these guys never heard of a Quixote in their lives, but god, if Aristotle was able to make a text about basic parts of speech and why we like media enjoyable and informative, why couldn't Plato with the simple discussion of love? Maybe subtract a few pedophiliac elements and drunken rants and we have a starting point.
Call me blind, I don't see the vision. Perhaps I'll be enlightened one day by this book but I highly doubt it. A 60-page collection about how we came from two-headed-eight-limbed creatures and that sleeping with boys my age is better than having kids doesn't strike me as "the method". Shame on you, Plato! I liked Diogenes better anyway.
I'd like to talk about how this book talks about love, since it's the main topic of discussion here, and how it is so unserious that I almost had to burn the book halfway through. The various speeches about love usually revolve around these two things: "boyfriends" and spiritual deities. I myself am not a spiritual person nor do I practice anything related to the sort, so when I was reading this book the topics about how Love is an actual being with scarily childlike features and a conscience turned me off almost immediately. Now, I don't about you, but I am not a pedophile, so imagine my face when I read about how "Socrates is erotically attracted to young boys" and is "always in a state of excitement" around them. Egads! I personally wouldn't take any romantic advice from those who are at retirement age with boytoys, but to each his own.
The way this book is formatted is also a big irk of mine. Granted, this was made in some 300~ B.C., and these guys never heard of a Quixote in their lives, but god, if Aristotle was able to make a text about basic parts of speech and why we like media enjoyable and informative, why couldn't Plato with the simple discussion of love? Maybe subtract a few pedophiliac elements and drunken rants and we have a starting point.
Call me blind, I don't see the vision. Perhaps I'll be enlightened one day by this book but I highly doubt it. A 60-page collection about how we came from two-headed-eight-limbed creatures and that sleeping with boys my age is better than having kids doesn't strike me as "the method". Shame on you, Plato! I liked Diogenes better anyway.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Gained me nothing but disturbance, i should stop reading plato’ dialogues for the sake of my mental health.
this has done much to me, further seach of the eternal truth will concern me for a life ahead
challenging
informative
reflective
fast-paced
No encuentro una forma ideal o adecuada de expresar lo mucho que he disfrutado y pensado con este escrito de este gran filósofo.
Definitivamente soy su fan
Definitivamente soy su fan
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