Module 2: Classical Greece. Religion & Theology Essay

Module 2-Classical Greece Assignment
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Module 2-Classical Greece Assignment
Love and sex play an unavoidable or rather an enormous role in different cultures around the world. Love has been discussed in poems, novels, songs, and other writings of the ancient times until today. Philosophically, the question, 'what is love?' has generated contested issues from different philosophers. Love is an abstract noun which, to some means a word unattached to anything sensible. Others see love and sex as a means by which we react the moment we experience love. However, since the time of Ancient Greek philosophers, love had been a difficult topic of discussion. Greek philosophers like Socrates and Plato produced theories and perceptions that ranges from materialistic conception, the physical and generic urge to the feelings of love and sex. Furthermore, these Greek theories review some intense spiritual affairs that ultimately allows us to touch divinity. Their writings of Plato in the Symposium and The Phaedrus has several scenarios that portray the philosophical notion of love and sex during the classical age in Greece. 
Plato was a Greek Scholar and Philosopher who lived from 424/423BCE to 348/347BCE. He is known to have significantly influenced the culture and history of the classical age in Greece and the western world. Furthermore, his works brought enlightenment to art, literature, science, mathematics and the social life of human beings (Reeve, 2006). In the Symposium, Plato is involved in discussions with other elite minds in Greek such as playwrights, politicians and the great philosopher Socrates. They focus on the philosophical notion of love and what it means to the humankind. Plato responds to Phaedrus by saying that, 'Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the world of human nature.' (Reeve, 2006, p. 71) What Plato means here is that every person is entitled to love not because they are taught how to love, but they are born with it. Furthermore, Plato points out that love converts two into one for they perfectly meet into one another. Therefore, love should not be treated as something that can be learnt or unlearned; it is in every human being. 
Additionally, Aristophanes tries to show the relationship between love and immortality. He says, 'every person is defective and restless, but literary incomplete without the other half (Reeve, 2006, p. 76).' Socrates manages to perfectly merge love and immortality in his spe...