In this episode, we will discuss some of the origins and effects of love, focusing on both the desire to unite with someone, illustrated by Aristophanes myth in Plato’s symposium, and the qualities we either discover or attribute to the person we love.

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Food for thought + Footnotes:

- Aristotle

- Diotima of Mantinea

- Stendhal

- Spinoza

- Schopenhauer

- René Girard

- Marcel Proust

- Thomas Hobbes

- The Agony Of Eros

Hosted by Jeanne Proust

Produced & Scored by Johnny Nicholson

Visuals by Pedro Gomes