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Eros III: :thumb28404090: 1. Simple lines The kiss: :thumb28708214: Suppose you read the following brief poem about eros: “I don’t know what I should do: two states of mind in me … (36) I’m in love! I‘m not in love! I’m crazy! I’m not crazy! Suppose you reread it. Such simple few lines composed with such few simple words. What would you tend immediately to think? Would this be a candidate for a Daily Deviation here at dA? It seems to me not, for a multiplicity of reasons. I believe dA is at times too sophisticated. I tend to think most of us would smilingly frown upon it; it sounds too juvenile. Perha

:thumb27628227: One of the exciting and relevant reasons for turning to the Greeks is that in the work of some Greek philosophers ----specially that of Plato----  one finds what are perhaps the best, the deepest,  and the most lively discussions on the tensions between philosophy and art as conflicting ways of life. In dialogues such as the Symposium, the debate reaches a real climax.  There Socrates and Aristophanes battle it out. The basis for their discrepancy in part revolves around the nature of desire and the possibility of human self-sufficiency and happiness. This is not to say that in modern times one does not find authors who see