Plato, Symposium
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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 meanings. By this word they use to describe love between men and women as affectionate marital relationship and also pederastic love between older men and young boys. By reading Symposium we found out that love between older and younger men was not only about phisycal attraction but also about „sharing wisdom“ - „the adult male‘s role as ethical and intellectual educator of the adolescent that was traditional among the Athenians in the latter sort of relationship, whether accompained by sex or not.“ ( Symposium, p. 457).This interpretation is in todays world very controversial. Many of us when just even think about pederastic love in this context as it should be something good and normal and then when they even presented it as educating of young men would be disgusted. But of course Symposium had been written in times of ancient Greece when young men were seeking older educated men to be beloved for them, they saw it as honor. When we talk about love we also should mention more interpretations of this word so we can compare them. For example according to Plato , love or Eros is concerned with phisical pleasure, it is understanding in context of erotics. But in accordance to Aristitle, love or Philia is love more concerned with friendship which he subdivided in 3 parts. In my essay I try to describe the first one, definition of love according to Plato that is in my opinion more difficult to explain because of different interpretations that were given by men who
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 meanings. By this word they use to describe love between men and women as affectionate marital relationship and also pederastic love between older men and young boys. By reading Symposium we found out that love between older and younger men was not only about phisycal attraction but also about „sharing wisdom“ - „the adult male‘s role as ethical and intellectual educator of the adolescent that was traditional among the Athenians in the latter sort of relationship, whether accompained by sex or not.“ ( Symposium, p. 457).This interpretation is in todays world very controversial. Many of us when just even think about pederastic love in this context as it should be something good and normal and then when they even presented it as educating of young men would be disgusted. But of course Symposium had been written in times of ancient Greece when young men were seeking older educated men to be beloved for them, they saw it as honor. When we talk about love we also should mention more interpretations of this word so we can compare them. For example according to Plato , love or Eros is concerned with phisical pleasure, it is understanding in context of erotics. But in accordance to Aristitle, love or Philia is love more concerned with friendship which he subdivided in 3 parts. In my essay I try to describe the first one, definition of love according to Plato that is in my opinion more difficult to explain because of different interpretations that were given by men who