Philosophy - Socrates View Of

Part I of Essay
We have heard definitions of love through our lives that have been passed on for decades. Some of us have felt love, and some of us have been in love. But no one ever seems to question what love is, as if it is something that just plainly is. People tend to just go with it, ....

Part II of Essay
.... of love. Socrates states that, “Love is the conciousness of a need for a good not yet acquired or possessed.” In other words we want what we do not have, and at times cannot have. Love for Socrates is a superficial occurrence and only based on the things in life that seem to be pleasing to the eye. But in the times when The Symposium was written that tended to be the case more often than not. No one is in need of what they already have. To possess something to its fullest is to have it, and therefore there is no need to ever have it a ....