Describe how Plato conceive of love (and/or friendship).

In Plato Symposium, all speakers attended the symposium in honor of Agathon. They started to give speeches in praise of the god of Love. Each speech takes us closer to understanding the true nature of love. Phaedrus who starts the dialogue, says that love is the virtue, Pausanias suggests that love is divided into two parts, Common and Heavenly love. Common love is when two lovers just want to satisfy each other through physical intimacy, while Heavenly love is when two people are attracted to each other through the soul. Eryximachus says, that love can be expressed in various things like in music, medicine. However, “According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.” Socrates says that Diotima gives the correct meaning of Love. She explains that Love itself is being pregnant, both in body and soul. When women love, they give birth and when men love, they also give birth but simply through another form. For example, they seek birth to ideas.