Philosophy - Socrates View Of

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want what
we do not have, and at times cannot have. Love for Socrates is a superficial
occurrence and only based on the things in life that seem to be pleasing to the eye.
But in the times when The Symposium was written that tended to be the case more
often than not.
No one is in need of what they already have. To possess something to its
fullest is to have it, and therefore there is no need to ever have it again, or anymore
for that matter. What we don’t think of when we hear a statement like that is that
in the future we may not experience what we did in the past. Having something,
and loving it makes us feel like it will always be there for us and that we will have
it at all times. Socrates believes that even if you have all you want at the present
time, that in the future you will want it as well. He says this to Agathon, “You
already have riches and health and strength in your possession, my man; what you
want is to posses these things in time to come, since in the present, ...

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