Symposium vs The Aleph
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Symposium
At an Athenian banquet, the guests in Plato's Symposium take turns praising and explaining love, or eros. Likely composed between 385 and 370 BCE, the dialogue gives historical figures such as Agathon, Aristophanes and Socrates sharply different ways of approaching the same subject. The setting allows philosophical argument to emerge through social performance, with the speakers' personalities sha...
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The Aleph
First published in 1949, Jorge Luis Borges's The Aleph is a short story collection in which speculative ideas become compact narrative puzzles. In the title story, a point in space contains all other points simultaneously, offering a vision of the whole universe at once. The encounter raises a problem central to the collection: an experience may exceed the capacity of language to describe it or th...
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