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> the proto-humans... would be to rapt with lust... The entire history is basically an excuse for the old "hey, we should sleep together and have fun" (shrug).

• night862 5y ago
  Heh, maybe not-as far as I am aware he didn't have a wife or any children that we know about. but it seems like he thought about it a lot :)
  • pvaldes 5y ago
    Plato wrote a lot about love relationships between men. Is a typical grooming tale that he was teaching to his alumni. Is easy to follow the dots here.
    • dash2 5y ago
      Actually in the Symposium it is Aristophanes who tells this story, as a deliberately funny and absurd way of explaining how crazy love is. It features both heterosexual and homosexual couples (these are just halves of four-legged creatures that were male/female or male/male or female/female respectively). The real argument of the Symposium is that Alcibiades' love for Socrates leads him towards the true good, which is philosophy.