You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who had one point

set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for up said 298 is something like, what is the role of love in the universe?

And we read Marcelo Ficinos' commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love from 1475.

For more information, please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.

This is Mark Linton-Mire, perpetually kindling new delights by my own peculiar ardor in medicine

Wisconsin.

This is Seth Pascon, desperately trying to return to God in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Aulone, closer to poverty than to plenty in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

And our special guest today is Peter Adams.

Hi guys, I'm here in Munich, Germany without my own object of love, which would be a nice

cold beer.

Even if I'm in Bavaria, I'm not sure how that happens.

I think that beer would make you transcend.

It would bring on the divine madness and it would make you transcend its own material

essence.

That would be good podcasting material though, so it's a bit of a shame.

Well, at the beginning of most episodes, we all drop acid and then we transcend our physical

bodies.

It's a key to this success of the show.

There explains a lot actually.

Divine madness.

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