Abstraction of Love
In the symposium, Plato discusses the many strong meanings of love through the conversation of characters at a symposium, or dinner party, in which the guests take turns on stating their views on love. Before the discussions begin the guests eat and afterward they begin the conversation. Before the speeches are given there are a few statements regarding drinking alcohol. The guests say they shouldn't drink heavily but in fact most of the guest if not all already have consumed a large amount of alcohol. So we could come to the conclusion that most of the speeches are given by people who are drunk. The views expressed about love in the novel are in many ways controversial and could be strongly argued in many ways. I believe that love was heavily treasured in the time period of the symposium and that today love is many times misused and has no real value to many people. The first speaker is Phaedrus and his main focus was that love is extremely old. He refers to love as a God and says that the God of love is one of the oldest Gods. As long as humans have walked the planet there had to have been some form of love in order for humans to have evolved. Another important statement made by Phaedrus
I believe this because every time I am with someone I care a bout I feel more complete and if I could find the one person I truly love more than anyone than my life would be complete. Socrates makes a great comparison between love and spirits, the communicators between humans and gods, and that love is somewhere in-between everything. Another interesting statement made by Agathon is that love is sensitive and that love will only settle in the minds and characters of those with soft natures because people who are mean and tough can't really understand the meaning of love. I believe that the speeches being made in the novel are largely based on stories told to the speakers by other because many times the speakers refer to myths and stories told to them. Ever since, we have wandered the earth looking for our other half in order to rejoin with it and become whole. is that love brings out the best virtues in people. The other kind of love is heavenly love and heavenly love takes place between men and boys. He says that love is responsible for beauty, excellence, mildness, wisdom, goodness, excellence, and, many other things. He is basically saying that loves controls and governs our lives. "(185c) her mentioned in the quote is Aphrodite the Goddess of heavenly love. For the duration of the speech Socrates makes many statements which he learned from Diotima that are very complex and very hard to explain in plain words. Phaedrus also says that the god of love never received enough credit or praise from any poets. I do believe in soul mates, that there is one person in the world that is made just for you and that we are destined to find each other and when we find our soul mate love is all we need to keep us together. Love is the bases of all other emotions and feelings that people have. Phaedrus believes that love is inspiring, because it brings out virtuous qualities.
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