Term paper Plato: Symposium Love or greek Eros‚ Philia was in the ancient Greece often theme to talk about between philosophers. Same as it is very spoken theme now so as it was a lot of years ago. This theme is very difficult to explain. Every one has different interpretation of it and think that it is the right one. Every one of us has its own definition of who is loved one and who is lover and how they should behave to each other. Love in according to the ancient Greeks has two different
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Although the dictionary definition of love is “an intense feeling of deep affection”‚ everyone seems to have their own way of defining the word love based on their personal experiences. The characters in Symposium shared their personal thoughts on love in many different ways. Some of the speeches were thoughtful and intelligent‚ while others seemed to be more for entertainment purposes. Throughout the speeches‚ there was a sense of competition among the speakers. The best speech‚ however‚ came from
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Love as a Higher Form Love has always been a sensation that has both mystified and captured humanity. It is a unique emotion and‚ while it means something different to everybody‚ it remains to all a force that is‚ at its purest form‚ always one step above mankind. In love’s ability to exist differently from person to person‚ one can find love to be a conglomeration of different branches. It can be said that there are six such categories: Agape‚ a love which sets store on physical attraction
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Presentation assignment Fall 2013 Break into 4 groups. Each group must contain one or more of the participants of the Plato Symposium. Two groups will have 5 members. In the style of the Plato Symposium‚ each group should fashion a 20 or 25 minute presentation answering one of these questions about Animal Farm. You may also decide to formulate a new question relating Animal Farm to Plato. You may use a PowerPoint presentation if you wish. Please be creative. We need a make up session‚ so the presentations
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Greek word‚ ’Eros’‚ translates into English as "Love". Love is generally viewed by society as an intense feeling of deep affection‚ however‚ love does not pertain to any one object or desire. Rather many various forms of love are believed to be in existence. Some of these more common forms entail romantic love‚ spiritual love‚ materialistic love‚ familial love‚ and sensual love‚ and many others. Within the Bernadete translation of the Plato’s Symposium‚ a gathering is held between the characters‚ where
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philosophical point made in Socrates’ speech in Plato’s Symposium is that Love is mainly a property shared between things; that Love itself is not beautiful‚ good‚ or anything else other than relation between those who desire and the things that they perceive to be good and beautiful. In my opinion however‚ the more important thing that the speech‚ which is really more of a cross-examination does‚ is take Agathon’s claim to know all there is to know about Love and lead him to admit that he doesn’t really know
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as described in Plato’s the Symposium‚ while the Neoplatonic self in Plotinus’s The Enneads and Marsilio Ficino’s speeches in Commentary on Plato’s Symposium on Love is a Christianization of this erotic soul. All three philosopher’s works‚ tie into love and the human soul‚ and the human search for beauty and goodness. Plato’s the Symposium is a narrative in which its character’s discuss love as it relates to the human soul. The love mainly discussed is an erotic love‚ in which the human self yearns
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the party of which the entirety of the setting of the Symposium takes place. The party is being held to honor his victory in the drama competition that occurred the day prior. When it is Agathon’s turn to speak‚ he starts his speech by pointing out: “All the previous speakers seem to me have dwelt upon the happiness of humanity in being endowed by the god himself; no one has said what sort of being he is who has conferred these gifts.” (Symposium‚ lines 194e). Here Agathon is referring to the facts
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Two Types of Love in Plato’s Symposium I have always thought that there was only one type of love‚ which was that feeling of overwhelming liking to someone else. I am aware that Lust does exist and that it is separate from Love‚ being that the desire for someone’s body rather their mind. In Plato’s Symposium‚ Plato speaks of many different types of love‚ loves that can be taken as lust as well. He writes about seven different points of view on love coming from the speakers that attend the
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life and conduct to moral and ethical principles. Virtue is a trait that many people would see as good. This word means many different things to many different people as described in this paper. I will be describing The Sophists‚ Socrates‚ and my own view on virtue and what it is means in all of our minds. Back in the fifth century B.C.E. (Before Common Era) many Athenians such as Socrates believed that there was a basis for stable and certain knowledge. They believed that by arguing and trying to
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