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Submitted by angel123_4 on November 16, 2006
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BRING ME A HIGHER LOVE
On Valentines' day My friend resolved herself in believing that she is in love with the guy who she has been dating for couple of months, this poured in significance in that moment. Many people express their feelings of Love, unity and Trust towards one another through intimacy. Later, they may conceal that this bond what they called Love' was nothing but Lust that broke apart leaving behind nothing worth remembering. One can also call this temporary Love as "Love" but according to me it is Base love which is a bodily infatuation temporarily based and self-centered. In Plato's Symposium, Plato speaks of many different types of love, love that can be taken as lust as well. I will concentrate on Pausanias, who is the life-long lover of Agathon and one of the guests at the party. He believes that there are two forms of Love- Common Love and Heavenly Love.
Common Love is the love felt by the vulgar: those who are attached to women as much as boys, the body more than the soul, and unintelligent partners as they care only about completing the sexual act (181b-c). when a man and a woman join merely to satisfy their sexual desires. This type of Love, works at random, and produces children, working solely for sensual gratification with men's feelings, for money, for loving physical bodies, boys, men and women. Common Love causes man to act irrationally, emotionally. It is this type of love that causes jealousy and anger in mates. On the other hand Heavenly Love does not "partake of the female." Exclusively homosexual (male-male); Comes only from the male and pertains only to men, who love them for their superior souls and minds and is more spiritual. It is not directed toward little boys (from whom one can derive only sexual gratification) but toward slightly older youths with whom an intellectual relationship can be fostered. Women, who are incapable of offering men the intellectual stimulation needed in love are, again,...
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