Part one of term paper
What is love? Where does it come from? These are just a couple of questions that Plato's Symposium attempts to answer. The Symposium is an account of the banquet given by a young poet Agathon, which was recollected and told by Apollodprus. There where six speeches spoken by Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon and fina ...

Part two of term paper
... resulting in a desireable wholeness. Aristophanes' theory states that love is a physical enjoyment which causes someone to take intense delight in the company of another. Aristopanes is trying to explain that the soul has other longings for which it cannot express, but can only surmise and attempt search for. This is the looking for our "matching half." ""Love" is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete." (Symposium, Speech of Aristophanes (192E))) This is accor ...