[cornelis]

A nice review. I would only quibble with the idea that philosophia was a love of the search. There may be a search, which in the Symposium is made analogous to eros, but it is not the object of love. In other words, love is not loving love. So back to the Greek, philosophia is love of wisdom, with the emphasis on of. The object of love is not loving, but wisdom.

[beckett]

He even met the television star Jennifer Aniston, and discovered much too quickly that the only philosopher she'd heard of was Plato.

A gratuitous swipe at Aniston, but she deserves it nonetheless, IMHO. Not long ago, according to some trendy journalist, Aniston finely sliced up Bush's claims to electoral victory, but she swore the recorder of her erudition to secrecy. She then went on the record and proved her great depth of wisdom by saying that Survivor, CBS' competitor of Aniston's Friends, was "not real television." For Aniston, "real television" apparently requires canned laughter and a bevy of writers cranking out formulaic jokes to make actors appear witty!