Socrates Unhealthyness To Divine Love

After reading Philanthropy, we see the stranger's idea of love was most like Eros, which was a contorted picture of what was thought ought to be. It is expected that Socrates was endeavoring to demonstrate the agnostics obliviousness to divine love. While debating with Socrates the stranger proposed that, "I suppose that our wishes and ideals are a part of our present selves, and that a true lover of men would not love them apart from that idealism in them which keeps them alive and human." The statement above recommends that man's self esteem keeps them alive regardless of how misshaped and off base they were. Essentially living on an independent platform in this dreamland without any intrusions or proposals from these said philanthropists.