1 Eros, or love, is the topic for discussion in Plato's Symposium. In a series of speeches, men debate the superlative meaning of eros the entire night. Socrates concludes the night by giving what is thought to be the last speech. In this ... 3 beautiful because you are searching for your other half to complete you and in Agathon's speech love is beautiful because it "fills us with togetherness and drains all of our divisiveness away"(197D). In Diotima's speech love is beautiful when "in birth." This passage pertains to Symposium as a whole because it includes many of the main points that t...

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