COLLAPSE
Diotima states in her speech that love begins by being in 'love" with the physical features of a person, their body, but as one gets older and matures one learns to see beauty deeper than just the physical. Beauty can be seen in the minds of people, their thoughts and ideas, beauty is seen in knowledge and understanding, beauty is shown in "practices and laws" and as one begins to be able to see all the different beauties in a more significant context, one becomes a philosopher, a lover of knowledge and wisdom. The ultimate goal is to not love the beauty in everything but love beauty in its own entity; lastly, Socrates concludes that the purpose of love is to become a philosopher and lover of wisdom. On the contrary, The Republic,…show more content… Based on Diotima's speech Socrates ought to see the beauty in what is already there, he needed to see the beauty in the Gods that the Athens worshiped, he needed to see the beauty in the way they ran their social and belief system. Instead he defied their beliefs, he didn't honor nor acknowledge the Gods they worshiped, he was believed to corrupt the youth and not see the beauty in their mind and soul. Secondly, the different analogies come together to sum up that humans need to look at the world with light in their eyes. They need to see the good of the world and come to be part of the world. Socrates defied the laws and policies of where he lived, he did not accept their views and defied them.
This theory of love makes sense to me in the point that we should see beauty in everything and value it as if it were the most precious thing, we ought to value everything for as little as it is. Beauty is not just the physical characteristics of something or someone, it is the meaning they possess within. I don't value the fact that to see beauty in everything means that you cannot defy beliefs which you don't agree with; Like Socrates was sentenced to death for being his own self and not being "the perfect
