The concept of love is a very ambiguous and controversial idea on which it is almost impossible to reach a singular consensus. In this essay, I will describe and compare two philosophical views on the concepts and ideas behind love. Through the works of Todd May and Plato, different approaches to the concept of love will be illustrated and determine the similarities and differences between the two perspectives. While Todd May focuses on the intensity involved in the idea of ​​romantic love, on the idea of ​​sex and love, he insists that the most intimate relationships were the most intense because of the the constant commitment you have with an individual (****). - you two what the relationship is about, create a private worldIn Symposium, Plato depicted Love not as an idealization, but rather as a judgment made about Love's control over the human body (lecture). One speech in particular, the one told by Aristophanes, presents interest and a mythic view on the concept of love. The love he describes is a dedication to the idea of ​​soul mate love (lecture). The spherical people were completely round, “they each had four hands, as many legs as hands, and two faces exactly the same, on a rounded neck. Between the two faces, which were opposite each other, was a head with four ears (Plato 25). As these beings have more limbs and eyes than any god, they were considered too powerful, leading to the god Zeus splitting them in two. Once separated, beings began to starve and became idle because they could not live without their other half (Plato 26-27). Aristophanes concluded that since their separation from each other was the cause of their deaths, it was nothing less than a demonstration of the desire humans have to love each other, as stated on page 27: "There you go therefore the source of our desire to love one another. love one another…heal the wound of human nature. The perspective presented by Aristophanes concerns a fusion between an object - or an individual, and the object of desire; love is about momentary intimacy both physical and emotional. Aristophanes presents the desire for the momentary intimacy that the human body craves in his speech by saying: "The goal was that...they could stop kissing, return to their work, and tend to their other needs in life ( Plato 27). » This particular quote is important because it represents Aristophanes' overall view that human beings want one another, they need one another; However, once they obtain the object of their desire, they are free to continue their lives.