What is love?

People say love makes the world go around. Almost every song on the radio is about love, and most of the movies we enjoy involve a love story. But, how many people stop to ask themselves what exactly love is? Philosophers are the ones who ask questions about things everyone else takes for granted. Love  is something human beings have been taking for granted since the beginning of  recorded history. Philosophers have been trying to figure out what it is for at least as long.


Plato explores the nature of love in his dialogue, The Symposium. It portrays a group of people at a party, each one presenting a theory on what love is. One of the men, a playwright named Aristophanes, argues that true love means you have found your “other half.”