In the dialogues Symposium and Republic, Bk IX, Plato offers various 
explanations of erotic love, from portraying it as a wisdom-loving 
spirit that works perfectly alongside the rational part of soul, to 
a deranged drone in a tyrannical one. However, across these seemingly 
incompatible descriptions, Eros holds several common characteristics. 
In this paper, I will argue three commonalities. First, that Eros is 
not capable of reason, and thus cannot give an account-of-why for its 
aims. Second, that Eros is unidirectional, something that is unable to 
switch gears from its original course of action. And third, that Eros 
is unfit to rule a soul, but should always be ruled by reason. All 
these common characteristics, in turn, points to a general picture of 
Eros that is essentially something blind and must be led by reason.