Platonic Love Explained (Why Modern Dating Feels So Empty)

The idea that love is a feeling rather than an appetite for something may be part of the marketing surrounding Valentine's Day; in other words, love is viewed as satisfaction, completion, or a secure sense of emotions. However, Plato has an entirely different view. In this episode, I take a look at Plato's "Symposium," which is arguably one of the most upsetting, and authentic descriptions of love ever put on paper. It is through Socrates' and Diotima's explanations that Plato describes love as absence, longing, and as a movement toward something we don't yet possess.