Love is a good topic to talk about. Today‚ if people were to sit down and talk about it‚ it would most likely consist of talking about how to treat the other person you love‚ whether it is romantically or loving your friends and family. However‚ in the case of the Symposium‚ the men in this conversation took the topic more in depth than I could have imagined. I believe that Aristophanes had a very interesting opinion on love. I feel like although his argument is quite odd‚ it does bring up a good
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desire comes from Aristophanes’ dialogue in Plato’s Symposium where he summarises how man came to have the form he now has. In brief‚ man once had two faces‚ four arms‚ and four legs; they were so powerful in that form that Zeus feared them and was diminished to split them in two. The severed halves were doomed to wander the earth looking for their partner as their desire to become one again was overwhelming. And indeed‚ when reunited‚ the two truly could become one again. While this view does not hold
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Aristophanes Views on Love In the Symposium‚ a most interesting view on love and soul mates are provided by one of the characters‚ Aristophanes. In the speech of Aristophanes‚ he says that there is basically a type of love that connects people. Aristophanes begins his description of love by telling the tale of how love began. He presents the tale of three sexes: male‚ female‚ and a combination of both. These three distinct sexes represented one’s soul. These souls split in half‚ creating
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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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Introduction Thesis: Love is the connection derived from experiences that gives our lives purpose. Remaining Introduction: For section I of my paper‚ I intend to compare two opposing arguments from Aristophanes and Socrates that transpired in Plato’s The Symposium. Additionally‚ section II will contain my reflection on love through examining multiple questions as I rationalize this fundamental feeling. Section One One sentence summary of each of my two views on love from The Symposium. Example 1: Aristophanes:
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In the Symposium‚ there are many people who make speeches about their belief in the definition of love is. There are many philosophers at the party‚ such as: Phaedrus‚ Pausanias‚ Aristophanes‚ Agathon‚ and of course‚ Socrates. All of whom are very wise and make very good points about love. Aristophanes speaks about how he believes that long ago humans used to be one being‚ and that we were separated from our other half. Now we all are searching for the other half‚ to make us whole again. Although
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McCoy Philosophy 190 T/TH 12-1:50 June 6‚ 2013 3. Plato’s Symposium contains several intriguing accounts of the nature of love. Describe in detail either the account of love offered by Aristophanes or Socrates/Diotima. What arguments could be given for thinking that this is the correct conception of love? DO you find this account compelling? Be sure to explain you reasons for taking the position that you do. The Symposium‚ written by Plato‚ is an account of the different speeches given during a
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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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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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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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