d fortheventually agreeing that love is the love of having the good for oneself always. She goes on tosay that the process of pursuing good is through procreating the desire to be immortal. Going onto say that love ids a gateway or a bridge connecting the divine and the mortal. The third part ofDiotima’s dialogue takes place well after the previous two. In this piece she draws a map of theroads immortality and describes two ways to get there through procreation in the body andthrough the process of soul growth, this was shown through her discussion of mating urges of theanimal world (basically dismissing that process), but concentrates on the process of soul growth. Socrates is moved by this because it coincides with his thoughts, also Plato’s. She describes theprocess as ascending on a staircase at the top is pure essence, absolute beauty that can only beperceived by the mind. She finished with the thought that beauty is what makes life worth livingfor men. Socrates himself agrees with Diotima by realizing that love is a bridge from the world ofbecoming to the world of being. Finally an ex-lover of Socrates and an acquaintance of Agathon is asking to join in on thesymposium. He is asked (the lover) to stay although drunk. This part of The Symposium isextremely homosexual and full of metaphors referring to such. This also leads this writer tobelieve that Socrates was a feminine homosexual because of two factors: one, Socrates uses orcreates Diatima as his feminine psyche to express deep seeded emotional mentally stressful beliefs;two, he is afraid of Alcibiades’ statements and asked Agathon to protect him from any harm.With that this writer would suggest that this duality is consistent with even today’s world. That is there is good and bad, love and hate, beauty and ugliness. It is a concept that has been apart of human nature since at the very least Socrates’ time. Love exemplifies the lo...
