Art of Living: "A Life of Reason? Socrates v. Alcibiades"

Update: 2011-11-21

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Lani Anderson questions the characters Socrates claim in Plato's Symposium that we only desire what we lack. The excerpt is from a lecture from "The Art of Living." (September 29, 2010)

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