Thursday, December 11, 2003
Introduction to Symosium of Plato
From symposium intro: "[Aristophanes' speach] actually anticipates more romantic modern versions of love, particularly the idea that love draws together two unique individuals to join as one person"
Wait, I seem to recall something like that once before.
Gn:2:24:Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh. (DRV)
So, basically the brilliant new idea of the modern world was anticipated by 3200 years or so, to date it to this setting-down. Maybe the modern world isn't so amazing in it's brilliance and the Greeks weren't that smart?
Wait, I seem to recall something like that once before.
Gn:2:24:Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh. (DRV)
So, basically the brilliant new idea of the modern world was anticipated by 3200 years or so, to date it to this setting-down. Maybe the modern world isn't so amazing in it's brilliance and the Greeks weren't that smart?
