![]() ![]() Human beings struggle to achieve beautiful things that they lack in life, and in so doing they obtain happiness. Since love is always in want and seeks to achieve beautiful things, it has compelled human beings to strive for beautiful things. ![]() Therefore, Diotima views love as a continuum of beautiful and ugly things that human beings desire to achieve and attain happiness. According to Rouse, Diotima views love as one of the spirits that mediate between human beings and gods, and mortal and immortal things (98).ĭiotima argues that love is the offspring of gods of Plenty and Poverty and that is why he (love) desires beautiful things for his father is Plenty, and he dwells in want because his mother is Poverty. However, Diotima disputed this view because gods own both beautiful and ugly things. ![]() Therefore, Socrates presumed that love is a god of beautiful and marvelous things only. In their view, love does not desire emptiness or ugly things because it has to adore something or beautiful things. ![]() In their dialogue, they asserted that love desires and is always in want of beautiful and praiseworthy things for it triumphs in happiness and wanes in sadness. Ultimately, they agreed that love must have an object and that the object must be in short supply and beautiful, or amusing. Socrates and Agathon were in deep dialogue trying to define love. ![]()
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