From today, and throughout the first part of the summer, we will explore the culmination of Plato's Symposium - the speech of Socrates - paying attention to his discourse of love, then that is a feeling: it flows from the head resonates deep within, where thoughts can not reach and reigns supreme intuition.
Like all great philosophers, Socrates is a diesel. Part phlegmatic, almost indolent, and a small step after the other takes you to climb mountains. It starts by praising the speeches of the other diners and meanwhile grind the knives with which they will slice dialectical. Who is Eros?, He wonders. And 'love for something, wish for something. But if you want to, you do not have one. It follows that we love only what we have not.
What you're telling me, petulant man? That as soon as I get something, I stop loving her? In fact, this is precisely the question that drives most of the letters that come to the post of the heart. The energy of love hearts are asking so many abandoned or betrayed - not end with the conquest or is there a way to hold it in later?
After you have sown panic for millennia to come, Socrates seems to indicate a way out. Of course, a poor loves wealth because they do not possess. But can love a rich wealth and a healthy health. In the sense that they love to have them in the future: in a time dimension, ie, in which do not have them yet. So you can continue to love a person even after you have won. It happens when you want to conquer it in the future. And 'the tension toward a goal not yet reached that keeps them alive Eros.
You must always be hungry, would you say Steve Jobs. The love lives as long as you make plans and dreams in his name. As long as you conjugate the verbs in the future. As long as those who love to never stop, at least a little 'of mancarsi.
symposium
Plato (fourth century. B.C.)
Speech of Socrates (Part One)
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