Plato, Symposium - Politics And The Love Of Men (Aristophanes) - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Symposium, one of the great works of literature from the ancient world, focused on the nature of love. This lecture focuses specifically on the speech made by Aristophanes. In setting out the conception of love as desire for one's missing half, he discusses the original "three sexes" of human beings, and how in our divided state these explain male-female, male-male, and female-female attraction To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 1500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase Plato's Symposium - https://amzn.to/2QB3oG1