Aristophanes On Love

Aristophanes explains love in terms of soul mates. He explains that we all use to be one with someone else, we had two heads and multiple limbs, sharing everything together and completing one another. One day the gods cut us into two, causing us to wonder earth searching for our other half, Never feeling complete without our soul mate. Although Aristophanes did explain that if we are all to praise the god Love, and praise him well one day he would put us back together with our other half and we would be forever happy. Living life intertwined once again with the person we were made to live our lives out with.
Next up is Agathon, but he makes it clear that first he wanted to draw attention to the god Love first and then talk about the benefits …show more content…
Socrates starts explaining that instead of praising Love, the original task at hand, everyone so far has attributed anything and everything to Love, when this is not actually reality. Socrates then admits that he will not praise Love just to Praise him, if he is to speak it will be the truth that he knows about Love. He starts by asking Agathon to elaborate on some of his points he made earlier. He asked him questions and they went back and forth until they both were at an understanding that not everything Agathon said was correct and Socrates was going to try to prove that Love is different than what has been aid by the others. During Socrates speech I did get pretty confused. He went to a flash back between him and a woman and their discussion on what Love is and he explains that Love is in between human and god, its lives between the two, but to get a better understanding the woman was going to tell a story about …show more content…
I thought it was mythical, it brought me back to my childhood where whimsical thinking about “the one” existed. I like that there was also hope added to the end that even though we are apart from our other half now there is still a chance we could be put back together with them. With Agathon’s story I appreciated how honest he kept it. Saying that Love is good and pushes out the bad and makes room for good in our hearts and souls is a beautiful thought to me. I truly struggled understanding Socrates stance in love, I see that he believes it’s not mortal yet not immortal, that it lives among us. I didn’t follow his discussion with Agathon about Love and I think that threw me off for the rest of his