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    My Personal View on Love

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    beginning‚ I think love is simple. But after attending the lessons‚ love‚ sex and relationships is expressed by many theories‚ and I have a deeper understanding of it. According to Triangular Theory of Lovelove is formed by intimacy‚ passion and commitment‚ and it also has seven styles of love. A relationship is more enduring with at least two components. We should disclose and share all positive and negative things to our partners. With all the three components‚ consummate love can be formed.

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    philosophers of history all learned from one another. Aristotle taught Socrates‚ who taught Plato. We are lucky enough to have access to the minds of these wonderful theorists through their own texts and others’ accounts of their ponderings. Though the times are different‚ the ideas presented by these philosophers are still very relevant and in some ways have helped to shape today’s society. Plato’s Symposium is the somewhat fictional story of a story of a philosophical gathering that Socrates attended

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    women of Athens learn of Lysistrata’s plan to withhold sex in an effort to bring her husband back from war. The Athenian women decide to unite and implement Lysistrata’s plan in an effort to regain their own husbands and sons. In Aristophanes’ work he demonstrates his view of women as being cunning and resourceful beings yet at the same time comedic without even trying: The women make meeting to conspire plans‚ the women make themselves luscious to attract the males of the community‚ and the women

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    The Lesson Between The Myth Of The Cave In the story of Plato’s “Myth of the Cave” Plato’s analogy portrays a group of people being imprisoned in a cave and being deceived into thinking that shadows on a cave wall are all reality has to offer them. They have lived their entire life this way‚ and never stepped to the outside world. But if they could manage to somehow escape‚ they would exit out of the cave. For the first time‚ the prisoners would see sunlight and dimensions of such‚ and their mind

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    Plato’s Symposium is a book of speeches given in honor of Eros‚ the god of love. Aristophanes‚ a comic poet‚ gives the first speech‚ and the second is given by Socrates. The first speech tells a humorous history of mankind and how it became “whole‚” addressing gender issues and sexuality. On a more serious note‚ the second speech addresses the origin of Eros and his use to humans. Before launching his speech‚ Aristophanes warns the group that his eulogy to love may be more absurd than funny

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    “Justice and peace can only thrive together‚ never apart” Oscar Arias Sanchez Plato’s writings on happiness are seen as a representation of Socrate’s view since Plato was his student‚ and presents his writings on happiness in three dialogues‚ namely Euthydemus‚ The Symposium and The Republic. As to necessary conditions for happiness in the Euthydemus‚ he argues first that happiness is what everybody desires; it is the end or goal of all our activities‚ unconditional good; secondly‚ he says that

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    democracy. I will then assess this critique based on the contemporary model of democracy experienced by Plato. Furthermore‚ I will argue that the critique is still applicable in a modern context by presenting various problems that modern democratic models pose for the critique and then demonstrating how Plato’s argument can overcome them. In order to clearly understand why Plato finds democracy so objectionable it is necessary to understand how democracy worked in an Ancient Greek

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    part of The Passionate Pilgrim‚ released in 1599. Sonnets 18-126 tell the story of young man and the poet ’s admiration and love for him‚ while 127-152 are addressed to the poet ’s mistress. In this essay we will look at sonnets 18‚ 116 and 130 and what they say about love‚ and see if they share similarities with each other.[2] Sonnet XVIII (18) Sonnet 18 speaks of love in its purest form; it is obvious that the author has great admiration for the person the sonnet is addressed to‚ giving the

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    Sample Symposium speech

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    SPEECH #1 (SYMPOSIUM PART) Thank you for that introduction. I appreciate the opportunity to visit with you today. I am here on behalf of M2 Innovation Incorporation‚ a group of local business that serves the quality products in terms of toys and other children materials. Our products are design to appeal to children as well as adults in the manner of entertainment and learning. In 15 years in this field‚ this company had made a great impact in the economy of this country by our products that

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    In Plato’s dialogues the symposium and Meno‚ both focus on the role of forms and through them the importance of how humans attain knowledge. However even though their goals are similar towards the attainment of knowledge‚ both arguments in the end are different to one another‚ when defining the role of forms. In this paper I will analyze both dialogues in their argument to the role of forms‚ and refute why the two dialogues are incompatible with one another‚ nevertheless shedding light on connecting

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