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Plato

"Love needs beauty." These three words said by Plato in his Symposium are the most influential and meaningful words in the book. It sums up what all the great philosophers argue and conversate about the words Love and Beauty. The knowledge and understanding of these two words are disputed and broken down, only at the end to be pieced back together for a complete understanding of how they tie together.

A conversation in the Symposium relates "beauty" and "good" together to explain what people are after when there is love. "…..love is of the beautiful. But some one will say: Of the beautiful in what, Socrates and Diotima? - or rather let me put the question more dearly, and ask: When a man loves the beautiful, what does he desire?" I answered her "That the beautiful may be his." In this conversation love and beauty are being examined. "Let me put the word 'good' in the place of the beautiful, and repeat the question once more: If he . . . loves good, what is it then that......


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