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Jul 2022
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Ep. 298: Marsilio Ficino on Love (Part O...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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On Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love (1475), with guest Peter Adamson. What is the role of love in the universe? Ficino tries to combine Plato's theory of love as reproduction in the presence of beauty with an unorthodox take on Christian theology.

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