the equality of the sexes, there is one fact that neither gender can ignore;

none can survive without the other. Love and the want of a soul mate keeps each

member of man and womankind in constant search of the perfect person with whom

to become one. Yet if this bond is a necessity of the human race then why has

the meaning, purpose and pursuit of it eluded us for so many generations. There

has yet to be a one universal explanation of love and there has yet to be one

who understands it's powers fully. As we see from Plato's Symposium, even the

wisest of men in a time when the search for knowledge was seen as the pathway to

enlightenment love was still a concept that was not understood and unknown.

Though many of the guidelines and characteristics of love are wise, some may not

The writing serves as a pamphlet that depicts some of the guidelines of love as

the philosophers of Plato's time saw them. The intervention of the God's in the

orations of the philosophers can be interpreted to mean the different aspects of

love and their effects on people. The text goes into many characteristics

ds that were love , yet for the purpose of this essay, it

the good and that the opposite would apply to love that concerned itself with

concept of love may have no exact meaning except for that which the society in

He spoke about the honor between one and their beloved and how it was a great

standard that is proof that even philosophers were blinded by sexual prejudices.

driving forces in a relation is fear; fear of inferiority, fear of humiliation,

Some topics in this essay:
Plato's Symposium, Soon Pausanias, Achilles Orpheus, Socrates Plato, Ideal Republic, Eventually Socrates, , Socrates Socrates, Soon Phaedrus, concept love, idea love, double standard, love god, modern society, philosophy idea love, society exists, characteristics love, orpheus punished, suffer loss, motive sacrifice, apply modern society, value honor virtue,