What is the meaning of love? How or where does love come about?
No one can truly explain it, yet somehow it’s understood. Love is considered to be an ultimate feeling or something that people concern about because that’s what happiness means to them. It is the principal that reinforces all human activity, and the obstacle of all human race goes through which is striving, resulting, and examined carefully. In Plato's symposium, a dinner party was held and the main discussion that everyone on the table had was about love as the main topic. Everyone was required to make a speech relating to the spirit of love. The philosopher Socrates gave his speech last, which he begins to claim his speech is about a wise woman named Diotima who had once told…show more content… He begins to talk about the qualities of love before talking about himself and what changed. Although Socrates believed that love was ugly and bad, Diotima shows him what the correct judgment is and how a person is pushed between having wisdom and ignorance. Diotima reveals to him that the man or boy will come to realize that there are all kinds of beauty which are similar and he will come to love beauty in general rather than physically. Looking at all of the different types of forms on knowledge and loving all sorts of discussions. As Diotima begins to talk about the “stages” she called the lover of wisdom “nature of spirit called love” (Plato 49). She begins to explain “that love is not being loved; it is rather being the lover.” Another point Diotima explains to Socrates is that the aim of love “is giving birth in beauty.” She builds imagery where beauty is not the only thing that should be validated. But she also mentions that in order for love to posses good forever it must have to want…show more content… Lastly the lover will go on the thought of giving birth to several beautiful ideas and propositions but also finding the love for wisdom. She then says that “love will be pointed to the lover who will be able to give birth in virtue” (Elite daily). This person will be loved and honored by the gods and will be one of the few who could become immortal. Towards the end of diatoma’s speech this has completely changed the atmosphere of the room by its end. Plato now enters the conversation explaining to everyone that Diotima was a fictitious character that Socrates had made up in his head. Although Plato may have implied that these were views about love, Socrates still have not realized or understood diotima very much where he believes that he may not be able to be imitated into “the final and highest mystery of love” (Plato Stanford). I believe that diotima wanted to help Socrates understand that beauty isn’t only defined as to one thing such as physical appearance which most has always considered being but emotionally and mentally too. She finds beauty within the soul and mind, that’s what she defines true beauty and true
