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This 3 page paper discusses the idea of objectified love as presented in Plato's symposium and discussed in Robert Stewart's text,Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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hold truth today. A totally all encompassing love, where one would willingly give ones life for the other, brings mankind closer to the place and time where love will be
understood for the divine tool that it is and not the plaything and toy that the human race has made it out to be, where humans objectify love in a
base manner. This, then, is Platos point as he discusses love in his Symposium. Countless songs and poems have been written about the grand emotion, but does mankind truly
understand its nature? This is the overall question that Plato puts to the men gathered at the symposium. Each must take some facet of love and debate or discuss it
to its final conclusion. Several concepts of love are offered by the speechmakers, but only one has the truest definition. When one reads the symposium it becomes obvious that
Plato believes in a two-tiered explanation of reality. He would seem to be stating that there is a world of who we want to become and the world of who
we are at the present. This idea of being and becoming are translated into many of the speeches given, but two of the speeches are really class examples of these
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from the place of becoming to the
place of being, and that love is the key to this transcendence. He shows how, through the most mysterious and powerful medium of love, men may eventually arrive at
the Highest Good, an intuitive and mystical state of consciousness. Each speaker takes a facet of love and analyzes it. Desire, then, is shown to be a base kind of
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