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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 spe ....

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.... is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete." (Symposium, Speech of Aristophanes (192E))) This is according to Aristophanes. His ides, or rather theory of "wholeness" is truly one of, if not the most, original and convincing of answering the complex question of: what is love? Aristophanes, argues that love is simply the name for the desire of pursuit of the whole. Aristophanes could not have been any closer to answering the question that has baffled souls (minds) of the intellectual and traditional man for centuries. There could be many conclusions to the theory that Aristophanes brought to light, bout an o ....