Plato's Symposium: The Dialectic of Reason, Love, and Wisdom
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 90% confidenceWalks through the speeches of Plato's Symposium up to Diotima's ladder of love and Alcibiades' drunken entrance; a 48-minute lecture that ties eros to the pursuit of wisdom.
What you'll learn
Plato's Symposium: the speeches on love and Diotima's ladder.
Video by Michael Sugrue, played through YouTube's embedded player.
Go deeper
- Plato: Complete Works (Hackett, ed. Cooper)Plato: Complete Works, the standard one-volume edition
- The Republic, Plato (Penguin Classics)Plato's Republic
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