Those queer Greeks: dialogue at the NGV Queer exhibition
| Queer Antiquities | Ted Gott (NGV) & Bernie Lewin (PAM) in dialogue | 3pm Saturday 20 Aug | Level 3 NGV International (St Kilda Rd) |
(more…)| Queer Antiquities | Ted Gott (NGV) & Bernie Lewin (PAM) in dialogue | 3pm Saturday 20 Aug | Level 3 NGV International (St Kilda Rd) |
(more…)Enrolments are now open for Winter evening classes starting the week of Monday 21 June. Those new to philosophy and Plato would best take our foundation course Reading Plato (online) [BOOKINGS CLOSED]. For continuing students who missed out last Spring, Platonic Love [BOOKINGS CLOSED] is offered again, and this time Read more…
Last night in Platonic Love we discussed how Plato identified the motive of love for a beloved with the motive for wisdom, remembering after all that his practice was called ‘philosophy’, which literally means ‘love of wisdom’, love of Sophia.
Plato’s Symposium is one source of a tradition of mysticism where a powerful desire for Sophia drives the soul upwards towards the beloved first principle. When finally arriving at desireless union, the ego-self simply fades away.
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