YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato
Essays 481 - 510
to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...
philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...
have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...
at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...
reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...
of as gold, silver and slate. Gold is the level where there is a situation for a man where the girl loves him wholeheartedly. He...
between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...
how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...
generation ancestors behaved as well. He classifies most relationships between family members as "the orders of love," and indicat...
human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...
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...
is no realistic political system, for it takes considerably more than one mans word to impart a true sense of unity. "Thus, for y...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...
anxiety of aloneness, but the wish to conquer or be conquered, by vanity, by the wish to hurt or even to destroy, as much as it ca...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...
this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...
if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be mad...
"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...