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This was very dense and rather confusing but I’m definitely glad I powered through. No bigger flex than knowing Plato.
But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.
"Symposium takes seriously the idea that there is only one subject of desire–our good, and our happiness–so that there is no room for conflict between desire and reason.....Phaedrus proposes a different view of things that makes conflict endemic, at least in any erotic context." –(Notes and Introduction writing of Christopher Rowe)