The Book Club: Symposium by Plato with Spencer Klavan

The Book Club

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🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Love is an innate desire of every human being, but how do you define it and what is its purpose in relationships? Michael Knowles and Spencer Klavan take you through one of the most collective philosophical texts on love in Western literature: Plato’s The Symposium. In our fast-paced world, it’s tough to make reading a priority. At least it used to be. At Thinkr.org, they summarize the key ideas from new and noteworthy nonfiction, giving you access to an entire library of great books in bite-size form. Read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes: start your free trial today at https://thinkr.org/.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Book Club, I'm Michael Knowlesles and this time we are going to be breaking down the big gay
0:17.6	boosy intellectual dinner party that is Plato's Symposium.
0:22.5	But first, in our fast-paced world,
0:24.9	it is tough to make reading a priority.
0:27.1	We all know that.
0:28.2	Well, it used to be.
0:29.4	Now, thanks to Thinker.org, they can summarize the key ideas from new and noteworthy non-fiction
0:35.2	giving you access to an entire library of great books in bite-sized forms.
0:39.7	So you can read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes from old classics like Dale
0:44.9	Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People to recent bestsellers like Jordan Peterson's
0:49.5	12 Rules for Life. If you want to challenge your preconceptions, if you want to expand your horizons,
0:55.0	most importantly if you want to sound smart at cocktail parties, go to thinker.org, that is THIN Kr, or no vowels, no time for that. That is T-H-I-N-K-R.
1:03.0	No vowels, no time for that.
1:05.0	Start a free trial and put your mind in motion.
1:08.0	When we try to break down, Plato's symposium,
1:10.0	I am joined by my friend of many years, Spencer Clavin.
1:15.0	Spencer is the assistant editor at the American Mind and the Claremont Review of Books and the host of the Young Heritage Podcast.
1:22.0	That's right.
1:23.0	I do my best.
1:24.0	Yeah, let's go to see you, Mills.
1:25.0	I'm very glad you could be here because I feel like I am going to bring you down to Earth
1:32.0	and force you to explain this. I read Plato's
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