Re:A second hexagon in the stratosphere of Saturn
by night862 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @04:24AM
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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 :)
Re:A second hexagon in the stratosphere of Saturn
by pvaldes on Saturday September 11, 2021 @04:51AM
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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.
Re:A second hexagon in the stratosphere of Saturn
by dash2 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @09:04AM
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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.
The entire history is basically an excuse for the old "hey, we should sleep together and have fun" (shrug). Maybe it worked fine for Plato.