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Talking about Plato and his idea of sexuality and love, the Symposium[0] is worth a read. Aristophanes speech in particular is, in my personal opinion, one of t
by hackandtrip 8y ago
Talking about Plato and his idea of sexuality and love, the Symposium[0] is worth a read. Aristophanes speech in particular is, in my personal opinion, one of the best thing ever written in this context.
- jgrahamc 8y agoCan you link to Aristophanes' speech?
- seanchapman 8y agohttp://www.john-uebersax.com/plato/myths/androgyne.htm http://www.john-uebersax.com/plato/myths/androgyne.htm
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- olavk 8y agoAristophanes speech is interesting because it presents preference towards either men or women as something innate an immutable in a person. This is quite different from how it was usually seen in antiquity - for example one Roman historian noted that the emperor Claudius was kind of weird because he only was attracted to women.
- hackandtrip 8y agoYes, usually people writes about the "homosexuality" in the Greece for example, but that's a completely different view: old philosophers used to have their own young boy that gave their body in exchange of intellectual knowledge. Platone express a completely different view (we won't never know how much the Aristophanes speech was Platone's, and viceversa), without judging.