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The Aristophanes' Ideology: Creation Through Separation
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What is love? Where does it come from? These are just a couple of questions that Plato's Symposium attempts to answer. The Symposium is an account of the banquet given by a young poet Agathon, which was recollected and told by Apollodprus. There where six speeches spoken by Phaedrus, Pausanias ....
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....s conclusion that one could come to is, when the gods split humans in half, they created what we suggest as love.
Aristophanes theory is complex and difficult to explain. We humans, once were whole. There were two humans (together) in one being.
"There were three kinds of human beings, that's my firstpoint-
not two as there are now, male and female. In addition to
these, there was a third, a combination of those two; it name
survives,thought the kind itself has vanished.At that time.... |
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