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Who did Plato (not) love?

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Platonic love? Plato's main text on love, the Symposium, takes a broad look at what love means, offering a serious yet humorous, poignant and flippant, literary philosophical discussion of the topic, with some famous but also surprising outcomes.

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Episode Information

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Oxford Abridged Short Talks
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Cressida Ryan
Keywords
philosophy
love
plato
romance
platonic
symposium
Department: Oxford University Development Office
Date Added: 15/02/2011
Duration: 00:12:19

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