THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE

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……..