A four-letter word seems to be enough to command the full attention of the female gender or promise the escape of the entire male population. Love fills the minds of this corrupt world at such a young age; success in surviving temptation proves nearly impossible. Love drives desires, wants, sin, and stress with the pressure of looking good, feeling good, and needing so-called “completion.” Even though love colors beauty, it creates confusion wherever it goes. This is due to the fact that there are hundreds of different theories on the subject and hundreds more opinions too. It seems that all life and philosophy stem from this independent concept called love. Whether it was done on purpose or not, both Plato and Augustine, two very influential philosophers, sought meaning and fulfillment in life through the act and desires of this love. The difference, however, is between Plato's transcendent views on love and Augustine's journey to that completion. This whole two-way journey began with the concept that perfection is not on this earth, but rather in the heavens or in the thoughts of helpless minds and souls. “Plato believed that the individual could not undergo moral transformation by living in an evil and corrupt society. For the individual to achieve virtue, the state must be reformed” (Perry, 80). Understanding that truth was visible through the closed eyes of meditation and concentration. He saw the world as a horrible pit that collapsed the victims of its darkness one after another. However, he saw the darkness pass and developed the philosophy that light can be sought through oneself. Although beauty, light, truth, and love were lost in corruption, Plato found them mean… middle of paper… messy. It all boils down to the fact that love creates life. Although Plato's aspect of seeking truth and love through transcendent eyes and Augustine's concept of placing that truth and love into a belief are different, they both reflect the same worldviews in that this life contains a deeper meaning . All desires and goals in life are rooted in love and truth, therefore actions and desires acquired all lead to the same completion. Both philosophers, Plato and Augustine, thrived on completion and succeeded, but only when they grasped these deeper meanings. Having something to believe in makes this corrupt and dirty world smaller and inflates perfection and completion. Plato's version of focusing on that and Augustine's journey for that love had the same result. It seems that special four-letter word is all it's cracked up to be.