THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE
Hello my colleague welcome come
to this platform hope you’re in a good condition as you read this article. We
always scrutinize on how people kill each other or commit suicide just because
of love today and some became healthier
and thus excel just because of love. Aristophanes’ on his theory regarding to
love he pinpointed a lot of stuff on this thus love is a remedy for an ancient
wound inflicted on us by the gods who divided us in two as a punishment for our
arrogance. Since those primordial times, each of us is only half of himself or
herself, searching relentlessly for completion and this is called Aristophanes
theory of love. With that theory of Aristophanes ,socrate used that as the
framework to fix up his theory that , we don’t yearn for the half or the whole unless
it is good. By this he means that the motive force in love is a yearning for
goodness, not just completion. From this he concludes that love is always
directed towards what is good, indeed that goodness itself is the only object of
love. When we love something, we are really seeking to possess the goodness
which is in it. Not temporarily of course, but permanently. And from there
Plato gives his first definition of love: ‘Love
is desire for the perpetual possession of the good.He thus says that ,
desire or strive for, as a direct or circuitous means of acquiring goodness.
Since Plato believes that everything, not just human beings, strives for the
attainment of some good, the entire universe seems to be continuously in love.
Indeed, it is love that makes the world go round, without it nothing could
exist. Socrates modifies his earlier definition that Love as
desire for immortality: to love beauty is to wish to bring forth in beauty.
To possess it perpetually would be to re-create it endlessly. Consequently,
love must by its very nature be the love of immortality as well as of the
Beautiful. That explains why love is associated with the reproduction of the
species. Love issues into a desire to procreate because procreation is our
nearest approach to perpetuity. We cherish our children because through them we
may partake of the future. Also in Phaedrus, the search for absolute good or
beauty is considered in terms of problems that the soul faces in becoming
immortal. According to Plato’s dualistic view of human nature, the soul is
immaterial and indestructible, therefore in itself immortal. But once it
descends to the world of nature, it is enclosed with the material casing of a material
body. In its original state the soul lived among the gods, enjoying the true being
of the eternal Forms. As they become human beings, most souls forget their
divine origin. Immersion in matter blunts the awareness of their spiritual
source. Nevertheless, that past remains as a state of wholeness to which all
men secretly aspire. Though it may act with confusion, the soul wishes to
reunite itself thus why we are acquisitive to each other.I pose down may
greatfull thanks if at all you have read and understand this thank….VITA VIVENDA……..