Aristophanes Account Of Love In The Symposium

I’m going to give you my view on Aristophanes, Socrates, and my account of love. Aristophanes speech on “What is Love,” in the Symposium was very interesting. I say this, because back then humans were more powerful, and knowledgeable than we’re today. Nowadays there’re a lot of things that we can’t prove about the past, simply because we don’t have any evidence or proof. Aristophanes says, “Humans once had four legs, four arms, two heads, and so on.” So us humans, were combined with our significant other, or soulmate, and we were split apart, because the gods feared we might challenge them one day. Aristophanes ends his speech by explaining, the time we spend looking for our other half, is what we call love. Aristophanes account of love can

Even if the parents were to depart from each other, both of them are still going to love the child. As you see nowadays, most parents are in court, trying to get custody of their kids. It’s like a child ties invisible chains to the father, and mother. If you have a child by someone why wouldn’t you want to be with that person, this is a sign that you can experience love at a deeper level. The way Diotima described love to Socrates is different from my point of view. To me, you experience love when you can maintain a stable relationship. If things are not mutual between two people, then that’s not love. One person shouldn’t feel like they love the other person more, both should feel this way. To obtain love you need trust, good communication, and pleasure. Without trust, you’ll always be overthinking. Eventually you’ll end up hurting yourself from all of the thoughts. Then, it’ll seem like the other person is slowly detaching from your life. Communication is the second most important thing. Without communication, your relationship will fail, because if you don’t talk to the one you love, you’ll be stressed. Having a hard time keeping a conversation going is bad