Love is neither wise nor beautiful‚ but the desire or pursuit of wisdom and beauty. Love is expressed via propagation and reproduction‚ as in the exchange and development of ideas. Socrates in the Symposium best expresses this belief. Socrates ’ view of Love and Beauty was that one is the pursuit of the other‚ and that other is the greatest of all knowledge. Love is a driving force‚ a compulsion forward to a goal. Much as a moth is drawn to light‚ for its heat‚ people are lured to Beauty by Love
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Love For Goodness Sake Socrates says‚ “In a word‚ then‚ love is wanting to possess the good forever” (206B). Naturally‚ it would be my inclination to agree with this statement; however‚ love is much more complex than Socrates’ definition. Love is the desire to always be happy‚ and finding goodness is the key to happiness. Love brings the good out of our souls to guide our lives. We search for goodness in love‚ yet surrendering to love and desire (eros) is what brings out our goodness. The happiness
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employment for the people Goals: To create more products to satisfy people History: Baking sweets was Ms. Serrano’s hobby. Back then‚ she only gave them to her co-workers as gifts and goodies. After some time‚ her co-workers and friends started to love her works so they thought of ordering more from her. Until such time that she thought of making it a business. It was first established 13 years ago‚ year 1999‚ through hard work‚ perseverance and determination‚ she finally perfected her product which
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LOLAB: Land of Love and Beauty As it is with any young soldiers‚ it was my dream too to serve in the Kashmir valley. I wanted to be the saviour of “the heaven on earth” as it was called by Mughal Emperor Jehangir‚ marred by religious extremism and terrorism. I started for my posting in Rashtriya Rifles (Counter Insurgency Force) with a lot of enthusiasm. My posting was in the sleepy North Kashmiri district of Kupwara. Despite its breathtaking beauty Kupwara has been infamous in the recent times
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1) Is Wal-Mart’s rapid rise to retail dominance a positive or negative economic development? A) Karl Marx Karl Marx’s theory is based on the surplus value (Karl Marx ’s theories? .2008). According to Karl Marx capitalists are able to exploit workers(doing involuntarily labour as a mere means to an end and not as an end in itself) because they only have labour to offer and this could be their only source of income‚ thus resulting in workers getting paid less than value created by their labour
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Art for Arts’ Sake Dear Friends‚ When I was asked to write to you about my views of the role of the Arts in society‚ I did not hesitate to embrace the task. Over the past three years‚ I have been working on a PhD in Music Education. I have finished all of my coursework‚ and have "only" my dissertation remaining. In this program of study‚ I recall many discussions in our seminar classes that were seeking to answer this very question: What is the role of the Arts in our society? For purposes
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Ivette M. López The Value of Art: A study of John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde’s Views on Art In the late nineteenth century a movement known as “Art for Art’s Sake” occurred‚ which consists of the appreciation of art for what it truly is; just art. At that time many critics tried to find moral and intellectual meanings within works of art. Many artists united to defend art‚ two authors who defend the concept of art are John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde. In his work From The Stones
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Jeremy‚ 6/4/13 I’m going to start off by saying that you‚ you baby‚ are my one and only. I honestly do not know where I’d be without you today. You’ve picked me up at my weakest moments‚ and have accepted me at the worst times. You‚ and even your family has helped me when I didn’t know which way to turn‚ and you’ve showed me which paths to go down when you knew I was heading into the wrong direction‚ and that’s something I am so thankful for. In the beginning‚ I never‚ ever would have thought
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Composition II 1 November 2010 Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder Beauty is in the eye of the beholder‚ goes to prove that beauty is highly subjective. We all obviously have different tastes. What appears beautiful to one person may seem ugly or not so beautiful to another. It is the person who is looking (the beholder) who has to form his or her own opinion whether a particular person‚ place or object is beautiful. When I think of this‚ I automatically think of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”. How Belle
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The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ depicts characters desperately seeking to attain love through a predetermined standard of beauty established and substantiated by society. Morrison intertwines the histories of several characters portraying the delusions of the ‘perfect’ family and what motivates their quest for love and beauty. Ultimately‚ this pursuit for love and beauty has overwhelming effects on their relationships and their identity. Pecola Breedlove is young black girl who believes she
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