Amar MehtaProfessor SommersTexts and ContextsDue: 2/2/2014Phaedrus by PlatoPhaedrus by Plato presents three speeches, all of which involve love. Of all three speeches, the one that I found to be the most interesting was the one Socrates gave in accordance with Lysias speech given by Phaedrus. In essence, Socrates speech suggests that love causes one to have difficulty comprehending reasoning and restraint, and causes one to disregard their well-being as love is a form of desire. Although Socrates argument is well thought out, I myself believe it was flawed due to my experiences alone and will begin to explain why it is flawed.The first flaw I found is that love is not solely a desire. Love is a desire initially, and then it turns into a satisfaction. Second, I find that love does not cause one to disregard their well-being, but in fact causes one to have a higher regard for oneself, as you are now in a relationship and have to be able to satisfy the other partner. If you are disregarding your well-being, you are destroying the relationship as you affect the other person. Next, I found that the concept of desire leading to pleasure leading to excess is faulty because pleasure does not always necessarily lead to excess. It leads to excess if there is zero self-restraint within an individual, but Socrates argument had said that love is a competition between reasoning and restraining oneself. Socrates own definition of love diminishes his argument for the excess portion of desire and pleasure. The first portion of Phaedrus was one of the most interesting reads I have done, as it caused me to ponder greatly over the concept and definition of love, and to create original thought, which is the purpose of reading a philosopher.