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Plato’s Symposium provides us with many different views and theories about love. Platonic love as I understood it was simply the love between two human beings in a nonromantic sense. In these readings Eros presents ideas about love, ideas that have not lost their relevance throughout the test of time. However being what it was, and that is many different peoples thoughts on the subject of Eros, there is a wide variety of ideas …

…It was already established that Love is not beautiful and happy because he wants things of beauty and goodness. This myth about love is somewhat unusual and rather enticing. It accurately sums up the qualities and traits of love. It discusses the pleasant side of love, as well as the side that can be unlikable. It provides us with an origin that makes some logical sense and which provides explanations for all of loves traits.