"(...)In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was man, woman, and the union of the two, having a name corresponding to this double nature, which had once a real existence, but is now lost, and the word "Androgynous" is only preserved as a term of reproach. In the second place, the primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder to correspond. He could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards as he pleased, and he could also roll over and over at a great pace, turning on his four hands and four feet, eight in all, like tumblers going over and over with their legs in the air; this was when he wanted to run fast. (...) Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the gods; of them is told the tale of Otys and Ephialtes who, as Homer says, dared to scale heaven, and would have laid hands upon the gods. Doubt reigned in the celestial councils. Should they kill them and annihilate the race with thunderbolts, as they had done the giants, then there would be an end of the sacrifices and worship which men offered to them; but, on the other hand, the gods could not suffer their insolence to be unrestrained."Simposio, PlataoNo Simposio, Aristofanes sugere que em tempos fomos seres redondos (nao, nao e uma exaltacao da obesidade) completos, satisfeitos. Os Deuses, sentindo-se ameacados por tamanha auto-satisfacao, partiram-nos aos bocados. A partir dai, a existencia humana torna-se tragica, sendo caracterizada por uma busca incessante (que necessariamente falha -os deuses nao eram parvos) pelos nossos outros bocados e por uma certa sensacao de completude. O Liberalismo mais apoteotico e triunfalista peca por ignorar a tragedia, e, como tal, constitui uma forma politica e social de arrogancia e cegueira, contra os deuses e contra nos proprios.(post e tema em construcao)
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"(...)In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was man, woman, and the union of the two, having a name corresponding to this double nature, which had once a real existence, but is now lost, and the word "Androgynous" is only preserved as a term of reproach. In the second place, the primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder to correspond. He could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards as he pleased, and he could also roll over and over at a great pace, turning on his four hands and four feet, eight in all, like tumblers going over and over with their legs in the air; this was when he wanted to run fast. (...) Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the gods; of them is told the tale of Otys and Ephialtes who, as Homer says, dared to scale heaven, and would have laid hands upon the gods. Doubt reigned in the celestial councils. Should they kill them and annihilate the race with thunderbolts, as they had done the giants, then there would be an end of the sacrifices and worship which men offered to them; but, on the other hand, the gods could not suffer their insolence to be unrestrained."Simposio, PlataoNo Simposio, Aristofanes sugere que em tempos fomos seres redondos (nao, nao e uma exaltacao da obesidade) completos, satisfeitos. Os Deuses, sentindo-se ameacados por tamanha auto-satisfacao, partiram-nos aos bocados. A partir dai, a existencia humana torna-se tragica, sendo caracterizada por uma busca incessante (que necessariamente falha -os deuses nao eram parvos) pelos nossos outros bocados e por uma certa sensacao de completude. O Liberalismo mais apoteotico e triunfalista peca por ignorar a tragedia, e, como tal, constitui uma forma politica e social de arrogancia e cegueira, contra os deuses e contra nos proprios.(post e tema em construcao)