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This is a 5 page paper discussing Socrates’ argument on “love” found in Plato’s “Symposium”. In Plato’s “Symposium”, Socrates refutes the claims of his companions that love is beautiful and that love is a god. To do this he uses the arguments he learned presented to him by his teacher Diotima. Through Diotima’s arguments we learn that Love had a mixed mortal/immortal parentage and because of this the nature of love is not immortal or beautiful but is considered in constant flow between the world of man and that of the gods and also holds the characteristics of its parents: from his mother Poverty, Love can be poor, ugly and ignorant; and from his father Plenty, he can be enterprising, wise or a hunter. As Diotima shows to Socrates that man ultimately finds that love is the possession of everlasting good and therefore will make him happy, she also explains why man’s eagerness for love is felt because of the need to procreate during the time when he is most beautiful. Despite this common desire in man, not all men desire the same things to make them happy which is further the result of Love’s flexibility and ability to bond all men.
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to him by his teacher Diotima. Through Diotimas arguments we learn that Love had a mixed mortal/immortal parentage and because of this the nature of love is not immortal or
beautiful but is considered in constant flow between the world of man and that of the gods and also holds the characteristics of its parents: from his mother Poverty, Love
can be poor, ugly and ignorant; and from his father Plenty, he can be enterprising, wise or a hunter. As Diotima shows to Socrates that man ultimately finds that love
is the possession of everlasting good and therefore will make him happy, she also explains why mans eagerness for love is felt because of the need to procreate during the
time when he is most beautiful. Despite this common desire in man, not all men desire the same things to make them happy which is further the result of Loves
flexibility and ability to bond all men. Platos work "Symposium" tells of a dialogue between the characters of Socrates, Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes,
Agathon and Alcibiades about "love". When it is Socrates turn to speak, he refers to how he learned about love from his teacher Diotima and therefore refutes the others ideas
that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind.
Socrates explains to the others that he must speak first of the being and the nature of Love and then of his works (201E). While Socrates at
first had posed a similar position to Diotima that Love was a mighty god and likewise fair; she proved to him that Love was neither fair nor good. Diotima in
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