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  • Essay / Mythology In Phaedrus: Socrates Logic of Love - 1237

    For Eros is the force which seeks to reunite the human being after its division into categories: masculine and feminine. Take for example “love” – which is a form of passion, which in turn is a form of emotion. Rhetoric has emotional appeals; just like love: “understand that a lover’s friendship is not accompanied by good will; it is like an appetite for food, with the aim of satisfying oneself - as wolves love lambs, so is the lover's affection..." (Phèdre p. . 20) The idea seems simple, but there is a danger of miscategorizing the issues that concern people. The different perspectives are always accompanied by conditions of a subjective nature, so that it is impossible to reach a universal consensus allowing the formation of a grandiose and ultimately objective taxonomy. It therefore seems unlikely to avoid erroneous categorization. It follows that any error in the process itself will lead to erroneous grouping, and such groupings can promote associations undesirable for some people, that is, stigmas. Negative stigmas come from a type of false inference called