in many strata. It is perpetually subject to debate, for we all are experts of love in our own rights. In The Symposium, Plato gave accounts of speeches from different speakers. Yet the focus of this essay is on Aristophanes and Socrates. Their explanations of love and critical comments to will be answered to these questions: What is love? How do lovers select their beloveds? and What is the work of love? What is love? In his speech, Aristophanes engages in the discussion of love,encompassing human nature as whole rather than individualistic aspects. According to amyth, we were originally created as a single being, united with our beloved. As pairs, wewere quite powerful and chaotic, such that the god had to split us into two. Thereafter, life became pursuit, a pursuit for the other half, a "pursuit for wholeness, to be complete." And thesis what Aristophanes defines as love. He believes that love is innate: " love is born into every human being". He is expressing that the phenomenon of love is as natural and inherent to us as breathing itself. Like other amenities of life, Love fulfills us. "To bein love is to see the other individual as a special complement to one's existence." Socrates, on the other hand, defines love as the desire to possess good and beautifulentities, which he presently lacks. By a dialectical method, questioning Agathon, hemanifests that love cannot presently possess the object of affection. Even when he desireswhat he has, what he really desire is "the preservation of what he now has in time to come, so that he will have it then." It follows then, that he wants, rather than has the good. Thus, Love itself is not beautiful. This however, does not imply that Love is ugly or evil. Rather, Love is in between; just as there is something between wisdom and ignorance- the right opinion. He is in between mortal and immortal. Thus, Love is an intermediate spirit who interprets between gods and men. Although there see...
