From Him to Us (04 November 2020)
N owadays, we have (unfortunately) more than enough enthusiasts to talk about love and among them, I am surely one of the less indicates to bark over it, be it as a subject or an object. However, in the spirit of our wholesome gathering in the midst of what used to be dystopian or surreal in our naive way to understand the world - I'd like to recall a beautiful piece from Plató called "The Symposium", one of the most eloquent conversations in the matter of love, and in which - and in time- a lot of clichés came to precipitate from. The year is somewhere circa 380 B.C. and "The Symposium" invites us to a peculiar gathering of experts that "do a lot without doing a thing", Philosophers and poets who get tasked to prepare a speech about love while a comrade celebrates a recent theater award. The diversity of approaches initially magnifies the topic: Love as a virtue, as a remedy, as the act of doing good deeds, love in the god above love in the man, etc....
