So much to say about this. Amusing, thoughtful, bewildering, and more. I went back over the light-haired man's speech (around the 9-14 min mark) for its well-meaning word salad that bores even his drinking buddies...and kind of loses me. (Admittedly, abstract thought has never been my strong suit.) I kind of got interested when he says, "Heraclitus...talks of a Unity which agrees with itself by being at variance as in the stringing of a bow or lyre." Ok, I guess I follow that simpe analogy even though I'm a tad unsure about the wording. But our young philosopher fleshes this out: "the art of music produces a Harmony out of factors which are first in Discord but subsequently in Concord, namely treble and bass." So far so good. "Of course, there can be no Accord between treble and bass while they're in Discord for Concord is consonant consonance is a kind of agreement while the factors are in Discord." Concord is consonant consonance? Dear Lord! This word salad is a small example of why I often struggle with philosophy and theology. I can get through thoughtful and entertaining Plato or very direct Aristotle but parsing those kinds of phrases befuddles me. Which isn't always hard to do. Ask my wife. Oh well, great film. Thanks again.

This could be modernized in an infinite number of ways

me and the boys reenacting the symposium fr

Chat GPT says there is no tiny womb at the base of the bladder.

Weird to see a movie where it doesn’t show the camera lens at all times

they left out a very important note: the homoerotic beliefs that they had, each of the original speeches had a degree of it and they took it all out missing a lot of good points...i guess it's hard to reproach when we see when this was filmed.

I saw this in the 70s when I was in college. I couldn’t find this online when I looked years ago. I’m so glad it’s available now. This is great drinking symposium of thought...emphasis on thought. Thank you!

Thanks for sharing but that was terrible ! Very disappointing

Wow we need this in our generation. We live in a society that needs philophers more then ever like socrates

Fantastic. As a philosophy lecturer, I'm very glad to be able to show this to my students!

Brooo I'm really crying. This woman knows love and makes me feel closer.

I love Jonathan Miller's play with Leo McKern as Socrates - having seen this BBC production when I was a lad when it aired in San Antonio, Texas in the mid 60's.

Thank you so much! Reminded me not only about "Symposium" which impressed me greatly when I read it years ago for the first time... You helped me to remember my university years, philosophy classes and our Students Discussion Scientific Cirlce... Plato put the foundation of our civilization, all of the philosophy that follows is just a collection of footnotes in the margin of his work :)

This symposium explaining 'love' is flawless

We need more uploaders like you! Very generous.

It is great to see this at last. Many Thanks...

Oh, wow!!! This was absolutely awesome!

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Leo McKern is sublime in delivering Socrates’ speech.

Thank you for enriching us!