Diotoma felt that love is a desire or a yearning for a lack of something, "a lack of beautiful and good things therefore love is neither beautiful nor good." Love drives us to desire some. Some love stays unfulfilled, while true love seeks satisfaction that is more permanent. Diotoma goes on to say there are two ways to receive permane

Agathon had the opposite opinion on love. "Love is the happiest god of all, he is the most beautiful and the best." Agathon states that Love is such a skilled poet that he can make anyone else into a poet and that Love is great at every artistic production. Agathon also considers Love wise and brave; to ve brave because Ares the god of war "has no lid on Love, but Love does on Ares ---love of Aphrodite. But he who has hold is more powerful than he who is held" (35,196d). And since Love holds Ares love is braver. Love is neither the cause nor the victim of any injustice: he does no wrong to any gods or men, and in return, they do no wrong to him. Love never uses violence and no-one uses violence against him. Love also has the biggest share of moderation, the power over pleasures and passions, and no pleasure is more powerful than love. According to Agathon Love are fills us with toget

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