Classical Athenian Dialectic
The Symposium
Plato • The Dialogue on Love, Beauty, and the Ladder of Ascent
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Speech of Diotima • The Ladder of Beauty
"He who has been instructed thus far in the things of love, will suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty—a nature which in the first place is everlasting, not growing and decaying, or waxing and waning."
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Plato: The Symposium
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