In today's mechanistic age, some of us feel the lack of a complete, holistic understanding of the phenomena of life, chief among them our experience of and conception of love--in both its personal and cosmic implications.
Our guest, Michael Michailidis, explained how what we seek today
was also sought by the ancient Greeks, who had a surprisingly modern,
scientific understanding of one possible explanation of love--
but rejected it for something more complete and fulfilling.
Clip taken from Learning in Public Episode 23:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb5BLHCPRyM&t=718s
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