Philosophy - Socrates View Of
A Different View of Love
We have heard definitions of love through our lives that have been passed
on for decades. Some of us have felt love, and some of us have been in love. But
no one ever seems to question what love is, as if it is something that just plainly is.
People tend to just go with it, and think that what they are feeling is really
complete and substantial love. In Plato's The Symposium, the reader is confronted
with some very different views of love as brought to us by Agathon, Phaedrus and
Socrates, to name a few. Each man at the dinner party has a different point of
view on the issue of love. Some of the men are old lovers, and some are just
friends, and each puts in his thoughts of love as the evening wears on. Socrates'
theories of love are a little different than everyone else's'. Being the great
philosopher that he was, he had quite a different take on the issue. Socrates strove
to find the truth in love. He was the "ideal lover of wisdom", never......
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