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In five pages this paper compares the views expressed by these authors regarding women's role and the infinite nature of love. Fi...
In six pages this paper examines Socrates concept of love, then compares it with the contemporary interpretation before being inte...
within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...
In six pages this paper examines the Greek concept of eros or love as it is portrayed in these works by Plato and Hippolytus with ...
who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Plato's ideas regarding love with the views of Socrates and Aristophanes as expres...
In four pages this paper examines how beauty and love were conceptualized by Socrates as portrayed in Symposium by Plato through i...
senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...
that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...
that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....
she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...
between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...
In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views on forms held by Plato as critiqued by Aristotle with references made to...
In five pages this paper considers how Socrates may have delivered a speech regarding love with references made to Symposium by ...
This paper examines how love is conceptualized by Plato in Symposium when contrasted and compared with the views of Isaac Singer i...
Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...
In five pages this paper considers Plato's reasons for writing Symposium in an examination of Alcibiades' speech creation. There ...
of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...
Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...
In five pages the theme of love is considered within the context of these authors and their tales. Three sources are cited in the...
thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...
she taught him that the journey of the soul is to go from the immediate experience of the everyday world and ascend into a realm t...
the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...
is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...
Since approximately 700 B. C., astronomy had a great deal to do with keeping time (PG). Natural periods of time were generated th...
his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...
that man and woman should be attracted to each other, fall in love, marry, and produce new life. This is Eros love" (Eros. Philios...
revealing aspect of "Loves Executioner" which makes the book a tremendously useful and constructive resource to practicing psychot...