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trombone_le_phasme's review against another edition
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d_a_kreads's review against another edition
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4.0
Plato really said fuck straight people, isn't it better to all be gay. Anyway this play might be the best of all his work to be honest.
alanffm's review against another edition
4.0
Great read. I had no idea the ancients Greeks were such open pedophiles - which was as troubling as it was hilarious. At its core this Penguin Great Idea collection is pretty solid. The Symposium and the Allegory of The Cave are both great works full of wisdom and wit. A good read.
damagedglories's review against another edition
3.0
âlove is the most ancient of the gods, the most honoured, and most effective in enabling human beings to acquire courage and happiness, both in life and deathâ
honestly didnât expect it to take me that long. i think it was a bit too dense, but not at the fault of the source material, but the translator. it reads too broad for such a wordy passage.
onto the actual passage, i appreciate how everyoneâs on opinion on what love means and what it is was so vastly different. itâs interesting because i didnât really enjoy socratesâ since it was just a retelling of his own teacher. i understand teachers teach but isnât the whole point of obtaining knowledge (especially on something not concrete like love) to internalize and draw our own conclusions? trying to fool everyone into disproving their own beliefs with nothing but a regurgitated belief irritated me, especially since itâs coming from The Great Socrates.
honestly didnât expect it to take me that long. i think it was a bit too dense, but not at the fault of the source material, but the translator. it reads too broad for such a wordy passage.
onto the actual passage, i appreciate how everyoneâs on opinion on what love means and what it is was so vastly different. itâs interesting because i didnât really enjoy socratesâ since it was just a retelling of his own teacher. i understand teachers teach but isnât the whole point of obtaining knowledge (especially on something not concrete like love) to internalize and draw our own conclusions? trying to fool everyone into disproving their own beliefs with nothing but a regurgitated belief irritated me, especially since itâs coming from The Great Socrates.