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Term Paper Title	Part One
# of Words	1330
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	5.32

     Part One

     The history of the tradition of the philosophy of love is as it states, a tradition.   By
definition a tradition has to start somewhere.  The synics said that a capacity for love did
not exist.  By saying this they started people trying to prove that it did exist.  This in turn
started the tradition of the philosophy of love.  It is human nature to try to disprove
someone’s ideas and beliefs.  Usually this is done to make oneself feel better about their
own views.  It makes u smarter and better.  If one can eliminate all other views than that
person is the strongest one alive.  With this said  anytime that someone would negate the
existence of capacity to love, people who believed would do there best to prove that it did
exist.  There is no proof either way to prove or negate the capacity for love.  This caused
a constant battle that shaped the history of love, and still does today.

Part Two

     If u ask me Socrates weasels his way in and out of arguments like a greased pig.
When someone says something that he does not agree with he tells them how good it was
and how impressed he was and blah blah blah.  It gets to be very frustrating and no one
ever gets how he is making fun of them.   “IM tongue tied”,  are we supposed to have pity
on him.  He was the smartest man alive at the time(if he even existed Socrates was
probably a character invented by Plato) and for anyone to actually think that they could
prove the ultimate word twister wrong they were sadly mistaken.  After Agathon tries to
tell everyone that love is beautiful, meaning in the physical sense, Socrates does his usual
questioning.  He then uses what Agathon said in his answers to prove him wrong.  His
criticism loosely went as follows.  He got Agathon to admit that Love is the love of
something.  Then said that when some one loves and desires something, they do not poses
it.  Then love  has to be the desire for beauty.   After this it is obvious that if one desires
what one does not posses and love desires beauty that love can not be beautiful.  This
proves Agathon wrong just like every one knew would happen.

Part Three

     Diotima opened the boundaries of what love is, what can be loved.  Agathon said
that love desires beauty, he only allowed man to love physical beauty.  Diatoma moved
this idea to one that states u love what is “good.”  Diatoma also believed that humans love
what is beautiful, but she also found beauty in many things other than physical beauty.
     Throughout ...

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