Philosophy - Socrates View Of
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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, and think that what they ....
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.... to divert from the real pursuit of beauty: Since beauty is one of the true
and ultimate objectives 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. ....
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