Reflection On Plato's Account Of Soulmates

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In light of America’s Hallmark Holiday approaching, I decided to write my reflection on Plato’s account of soulmates. Beginning with the idea that humans were once “globular in shape, with rounded back and sides, four arms and four legs, and two faces, both the same, one cylindrical neck, and one head, with one face one side and one the other, and four ears, and two lots of privates, and all other parts to match”, Plato tells a story ultimately about completion: describing two people to be two parts of a bigger entity once whole. While this explanation and story of soulmates is frankly quite beautiful as he returns to the idea that, “this love is always trying to reintegrate our former nature, to make two into one, and to bridge the gulf between one human being and another”, I think Plato’s account of love and soulmates could be interpreted as rather dismal and limiting. Specifically, I came to this conclusion by analyzing what a relationship of two halves making a whole might entail and how Plato’s explanation does not necessarily allow for more than one romantic relationship or various types of love.
Because Plato’s story is about parts constituting a whole, it insinuates that one part existing is not …show more content…

Specifically, I think you can have many soulmates in your life and these relationships do not have to be romantic. For example, I would consider many of my friends to be my soulmates, as I would with some of my family members. Accordingly, I think that those relationships can be just as fulfilling or even more fulfilling than traditional romantic relationships. There are certain people with whom you can instantly and profoundly connect with and they can appear at any time in your life, in a variety of forms, and sometimes they are not meant to be around forever. A lack of romance or reproduction does not make them any less of a

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