ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that love is the human response to beauty. Love is something human beings have been taking for granted since the beginning of recorded history. 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. Plato explored the nature of love in his dialogue, Symposium. It portrays a group of people at a party, each one presenting a theory on what love is. Plato believed true love is always directed toward true beauty. The claim that love is rational has an interesting implication, however. Montaigne's conception of love is very poetic, but it is also problematic.
