The Aristophanes' Ideology: Creation Through Separation
What is love? Where does it come from? These are just a couple of questions that Plato's Symposium attempts to answer. The Symposium is an account of the banquet given by a young poet Agathon, which was recollected and told by Apollodprus. There where six speeches spoken by Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon and finally Socrates. All of these six speeches given, was an attempt to define love to its fullest extent. One speech came closest to defining and answering the complex questions about love. Love is the desire find and infinitely please your soul mate, to understand another as you would yourself, to find your other half, and a completion resulting in a ...
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His ides, or rather theory of "wholeness" is truly one of, if not the most, original and convincing of answering the complex question of: what is love? Aristophanes, argues that love is simply the name for the desire of pursuit of the whole. Aristophanes could not have been any closer to answering the question that has baffled souls (minds) of the intellectual and traditional man for centuries. There could be many conclusions to the theory that Aristophanes brought to light, bout an obvious conclusion that one could come to is, when the gods split humans in half, they created what we suggest as love.
Aristophanes theory is complex and difficult to explain. We humans, once were whole. There were two humans (together) in one being.
"There were three kinds of human beings, that's my firstpoint-
not two as there are now, male and female. In addition to
these, there was a third, a combination of those two; it name
survives,thought the kind itself has vanished.At that ...
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create havoc whenever they wanted. There were consequences that had to be met for this, punishment, a solution to the problem if you will. In lieu of this act that proved to be detrimental to further development of the "androgynous,"the gods extinguished our eternal happiness. The gods did this by splitting once "whole," humans into two (half). Zeus said;
"At one stroke they will lose their strength and also become
more profitable to us, owing to increase in their number.
They shall walk upright on two legs. But if I find they
still run riot and do not keep the peace,I will cut them
in two..."(Symposium, Speech of Aristophanes(190D))
By the gods doing this they halved the ...
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