Aristophanes: Should There Be Incomplete Without Another?

People today have longed to find their other half or soulmate. This idea has mentally been placed into the human mind through cinematic films and through romantic novels. However, the idea of longing for your other half in actuality derives from philosopher Aristophanes. The philosopher used this theory to explain why humans looked for one another to complete them and the reasons why we feel incomplete without another. Aristophanes challenges Hesiod’s theory about love being only physical – that you can love someone as long as their exterior is beautiful. However, Aristophanes mocks this idea while telling a group of men at a party the story of the Greek God versus the humans. The following report explains why: love is identified through this …show more content…
In today’s modern day this concept is no longer applicable because we as humans now practice the tool of being independent without another by our sides. In today society we are taught that we can achieve love on our own; we do not need another to full what Aristophanes calls emptiness. Humans have learned that to achieve happiness is to work hard and to find love in yourself before finding it in another. We have come a long way from what our ancestors thought we would be; that a woman would be nothing if she did not have a man by her and a man would not be a man if he didn’t sleep with many women. Humans has showed great progress, a women now has a career, take care of her children, and stands on her own. A man is loyal to one women, can be a at home husband and is happy if he does not find love with a women. Happiness is achieve with different connections it does not need to be with our half. Aristophanes theory says that to be happy is to have your other half, but if you other half is no longer there does that mean you will forever be sad? I feel to follow this theory bring too much of a pressure on human to find happiness with only one person and to know they are never to be complete without