Are sex and love meaningful? For Aristophanes, finding and joining with your soul-mate is the key to happiness. Lucretius disagrees. Sexual desire is simply an agitation of the body's elements; love is the dangerous fantasy that there is any greater meaning to it than that.

Recommended Readings:

Aristophanes: Plato's Symposium (189d - 194e)

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Lucretius: On the Nature of Things 4.10301287

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