YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Symposium by Plato and the Concept of Love
Essays 271 - 300
how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...
are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...
is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...
reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...
to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
generation ancestors behaved as well. He classifies most relationships between family members as "the orders of love," and indicat...
profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...
Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...
human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
individual to the spiritual and the universe. According to the scala amoris, then, love is that which in its highest and purest se...
it threatens what they each have come to see as the status quo of their lives. However, as this new experience begins to give each...
of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nula...
change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...
yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...
In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...
role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....
Plato's Euthyphro is employed in this paper consisting of eight pages in order to explore the roots of godly piety and this tutori...
should also make note of how "King Rat" calls attention to the limits of administration and the influence of the political realm w...
In five pages this paper examines political rule in a consideration of knowledge, wisdom, and morality in Plato's The Republic. T...
In two pages this paper considers Plato's use of tetralogy organization in an overview of Books I and II of The Republic. There a...
out, inasmuch as one cannot love someone more than life itself. Indeed, this concept proves too great a burden for another person...
only a satire of society and politics, it is also an example of ones examination of his life. Although this work is a satire, it ...
In five pages this paper examines Plato's views on human nature as they are presented in The Republic with the 'Good City,' societ...
In five pages this report discusses how love and time are featured in the poems 'Adam's Curse,' 'O Do not Love too Long,' and 'Nev...
In six pages this paper examines Plato's Gorgias which describes a philosophical dialogue between the title character and Socrates...
her womanhood, she is one who lives at the mercy of her desires. Not aware -- or at least not caring -- about the havoc she wreak...