Plato’s Symposium contains a myth about the origins of human love, the Myth of Aristophanes. In the beginning, there were three kinds of people: male, descended from the sun; female, descended ...

Aristophanes says his speech explains “the source of our desire to love each other.” He says, “Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together ...

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In Plato’s Symposium a character called Aristophanes tells a story about Love. He says that once, near the beginning of time, there were three types of human, one male, one female and one that ...

But here it goes. At Plato’s Symposium, Aristophanes told his version of the creation story. He said that in the beginning, the gods had created these humans that were essentially double beings ...

I’ve always been captivated by Plato’s myth of Aristophanes. Once upon a time ... Yet we long for the wholeness of our former state, which explains how fervently we seek love and connection.

In 416BC the Greek playwright Aristophanes went to a drinking party. The guests included many famous Athenians, including Socrates, and all of them delivered a speech about love. Aristophanes ...

or that human activities play no role in the current climate crisis. Such false beliefs are not admirable. They are destructive to our society. Aristophanes probably placed this form of ignorance ...