from the real pursuit of beauty: Since beauty is the ultimate objective of Love.Aristophanes and his comical tale of the way mankind came about needing a partnergreatly opposed that of Socrates. Aristophanes put homosexuality and heterosexuality atthe same level, believing that both were predestined. He recognized that love was a need;a longing to regain a lost happiness. Socrates, on the other hand, concluded thatheterosexual and homosexual Love were not at all at the same level. Arguing that physicaldesire was inferior to the love of wisdom which is more widespread in homosexuality,adding that women are incapable of creative activity above the physical level. Ultimatelywhat transpires from his speech is that he has a meaning of Love quite different from thatwhich the common man would attach to it. ...
