Plato’s theory can be applied when counseling individuals who change partners hoping to find something better. Moreover, it can be applied to counsel young adults who are often dissatisfied with parental protective love. If viewed as an immortal love, parental love is something that young adults can cherish.  

Robert Solomon was an American philosophy professor who described the essence of love as reciprocal and desire of response. Cognitive theory of emotions has been developed by Robert Solomon. The emotions of human beings are vulnerable to alteration and rational assessment. The nature of love has also been speculated in a philosophical manner by Plato.

In Plato’s symposium, Plato implied different discourses on love, and how ultimately this would enable men to arrive at the highest good. On the other hand, Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics outlined men's aims at a certain good. Plato’s symposium occurs at Agathon’s party, attended by men of different interests. They decide to give praises to Eros.

It is good to note that speeches in Thucydides are formed by a subsequent party, as a result, should not be regarded as a word-for-word imitation of what Socrates uttered on that event. However, in what relevance does Plato’s Apology locate to the valid justification of Socrates, no means can be used to determine (Jowett et al, 12).

The allegory acts as a symbolic representation in full contrast with how human beings perceive and believe in what reality is. Exactly what is reality? What one may be seeing may other people not see it? The answer to these questions is ne: Ignorance. Ignorance is what is holding humans back from seeing the bigger picture of reality.

Gorgias and Phaedrus are detailed studies on virtue founded upon the examination of the nature of rhetoric, power, art, temperance, justice as well as good versus evil. Plato tries to examine the philosophical approach to determining noble and proper human existence. The study is presented in a dialogue between Socrates and his fellow citizens.

The ennobling depiction of Socratic rhetoric that appears there serves also as a powerful, if the implicit, critique of the dangers posed to young men, such as Meno, by an enthusiasm for a pure, calculating political rationalism (such as seems exhibited in modern rational choice theory) and by a hubristic reliance upon certain unexamined opinions about human beings and the nature of the rule.

Aristocracy is the chosen ideal form of government by Plato.  According to him, it should be ruled by the best, the most wise, intelligent, non-corrupt individuals in the city. This elite group has the ability to have complete control of the state. Plato stratified his society for an ideal state into three classes: Guardians, Auxiliaries and Producers.

The explanation of what is good depends on the knowledge that a person has and the explanation of knowledge is given as smoothing which the philosophers possess. Since the philosophers know what is to know, they know the difference between good and bad and thus they are the only individuals who can know exactly what virtue is and what is just.

Prior to initiating propositions, despite most of his reliable philosophical thoughts, Plato could have considered extending borders for his analysis of the prevailing political system and situation in the democratic society and seek ways for democracy to maintain the balance of liberty and power as well as respect for the authority of the ruling body    

Plato met Socrates in 408 B.C. and studied with him until the teacher died in 399 B.C. It does not appear from Plato's own writings that he was particularly intimate with Socrates, and he cannot have been more than twenty-nine years old when he saw the teacher for the last time. At the age of 40, Plato left Athens to study with Pythagoras at Crotona.

Therefore, the things and experiences in this world are not all there is. However, humans cannot experience the perfect world in this physical world unless they leave the physical world (Dancy 4).On the other hand, Plato's student, Aristotle, developed his theory of substances, which featured in his books Categories and Metaphysics Z. In this theory, Aristotle considered implications, and no accidents, to be the real things in the world,

Plato presents his perception of the universe in the Timaeus. According to him, the universe is the handiwork of a divine Craftsman. Mathematical order has to be imposed on this universe, which is besieged with pre-existing chaos and this generates an ordered universe.According to Plato, the universe is unchanging and the true knowledge remains same in every place at every time, education too should be unchanging like the true knowledge.

Other philosophers like the pre-Socratics have talked about philosophies that can easily relate to them. So what does it imply to have a mind? If one argues that the mind is being conscious, one must also admit that most animals do have minds. Is having a mind being conscious of an individual's consciousness? One can pose an individual with a mind when he or she is sound asleep and unconscious?

The nature of universals is argued by Plato and Aristotle (Greek Philosophers) in different ways. Plato argued that all things or property have a universal form. This form can be related to other things. Furthermore, he also argued the existence of “uninstantiated universals”. These are universal forms that do not relate to a particular thing. 

According to Aristotle, there are three kinds of rhetoric: the deliberative rhetoric (one the aims to establish the usefulness or the harmfulness of a proposed or future action); forensic rhetoric (the kind that defends or accuse, referring to past acts and circumstances; and, the epideictic or celebratory rhetoric (the kind that eulogize or diseulogize, presenting facts or events, particularly the one recommending those who are worthy of praise or blame).