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Plato's Symposium

Introduction

Love has been the object of fascination and debate in the hands of for quite a long time. Majority of the people imagine, Plato is of the opinion that love means love or sexless ascetic, which is not true. In the Symposium, Plato puts love as a sexual and a natural act, but one which infinitely deeper roots. According to him love is a cosmic principle. The idea which is proposed about love being desire for something has been outrightly rejected by Plato.

Love and Desire are two separate entities that often go hand in hand with one another. The fact that love is simply a desire for achieve or attain something is what was opposed by Plato (Stewart, 1995, pp. 200-250). It would mean that love is only the journey which is taken to achieve an object. It could be anything a person, animal or a thing.

Plato claims that man seeks immortality through the beloved, through pro-creation. That does not mean that Plato denies the body or physical love (Stewart, 1995, pp. 200-250). Love is the feeling of attraction or the want of the other person because of qualities, like intelligence, wisedom or beauty.

Beauty and Love are bonded with each other. Eith the person feels love when he sees beauty or he sees beauty because he is in love. As an individual progress, he feels for all beautiful forms a kind of exaltation he felt when he fell in love for the first time. When he let his love take forward, it goes from the particular towards the manifold. Then, go to the beauty of the mind is more wonderful than the beauty of form. Plato says that you fall in love by the quality of the mind of a person but his fitness is not so funny (Stewart, 1995, pp. 200-250). This is a progression from the concrete to the immaterial, under the influence of love and inspiration.

Discussion

The idea that love is simply a desire for to attain is flawed in its roots. It would impose that the things or people themselves have no attraction to one other, rather its only the chase which is what a person enjoys most or loves.

Plato writes about love as being the affectionate force between two people (male or female is not the objective of discussion) and it even leads people to give up their lives for their loved ones. No man likes to be seen commiting and inglorious act by their lover, so they would act glorious more and more to gain better standing their lover's eyes (Stewart, 1995, pp. 200-250).

If love were only as state a desire to attain the elusive, than such statements would not be put forward by Plato. Love gives birth to desire. The desire of the companyof the loved one, the desire to touch them, the desire to 'love' them. Love in these sense means the act of pro-creation.

In Plato's work, the passion of love is the spiritual force that ...