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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: PHAEDRUS: Certainly.
SOCRATES: Now to which class does love belong--to the debatable or to the
undisputed class?
PHAEDRUS: To the debatable, clearly; for if not, do you think that love
would have allowed you to say as you did, that he is an evil both to the
lover and the beloved, and also the greatest possible good?
SOCRATES: Capital. But will you tell me whether I defined love at the
beginning of my speech? for, having been in an ecstasy, I cannot well
remember.
PHAEDRUS: Yes, indeed; that you did, and no mistake.
SOCRATES: Then I perceive that the Nymphs of Achelous and Pan the son of
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