The Symposium - with John Vervaeke and Jacob Howland

I sit down with John Vervaeke and Jacob Howland to discuss The Symposium, one
of the great dialogues of Plato. Professor Jacob Howland is Director of
University of Austin, Texas' Intellectual Foundations program. Previously,
Howland served as McFarlin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa
and Senior Fellow at the Tikvah Fund. He is the author of five books and one
edited book, including two on Plato’s Republic as well as studies of
Kierkegaard and the Talmud. Howland’s articles have appeared in The New
Criterion, City Journal, and The Nation, among others. John Vervaeke: /
@johnvervaeke Jacob Howland: https://www.jacobhowland.com/ \- Jacob's book,
Plato and the Talmud: https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Talmud-J... \- John
Vervaeke's YouTube series, After Socrates: • After Socrates \- Event in Chino,
California in May, titled, 'The Quest for a Spiritual Home':
https://events.eventzilla.net/e/estua... \- Plato's Dialogues, including The
Symposium, are included in our The Symbolic World reading list. See here for
more: https://thesymbolicworld.com/reading-... \-------------------------
Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Coming up next 00:00:33 - Intro music 00:00:59 -
Important announcement 00:02:23 - Introduction 00:03:35 - Aggression and
sexuality - Aristophanes 00:06:41 - The Symposium 00:09:39 - Alcibiades
00:12:27 - Great accomplishment of Socrates 00:13:26 - Eros and the Christian
ascetics 00:19:31 - Return to The Symposium: ascent and tragedy 00:23:41 -
What makes the difference? 00:25:41 - Asceticism and seduction 00:29:08 - The
longing of Alcibiades 00:33:44 - The Aristophanes myth 00:37:06 - Organic
unity VS the Tower of Babel 00:40:04 - Natural polarity 00:42:58 - Custom
00:47:41 - The lover of wisdom 00:50:22 - The gift from God and the gadfly
00:54:35 - The ground of intelligibility 00:57:06 - The secret of asceticism
00:58:55 - The ladder of ascent 01:01:49 - Babel 01:05:18 - Engaged detachment
01:08:50 - Tragedy and comedy 01:12:46 - Where does this drive come from?
01:23:47 - The key difference 01:30:44 - The source 01:40:01 - Final remarks
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