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Transience and Elasticity of Love

characters and their quest for happiness, despite the fact their lives are typically mired in chaos and confusion. Carver presents...

Psyche, Cupid, and Plato's Definition of Love

between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...

Love and Lust

sort of attraction into three categories within the human brain: "1) Lust (the craving for sexual gratification), driven by androg...

Different Types of Love

you care for yourself" (What are three (3) types of Love in the New Testament?). And, still yet, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary st...

The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz

dungeon and as such is nothing more than a simple fun work (The Book of Good Love of Juan Ruiz Archpriest of Hita, 2007). There ar...

Loving Differently? Men and Women

that they are to blame and are being criticized since the woman is not happy. If a woman expresses an emotion, she usually wants r...

Love Defined and Described

this paper by describing what love is NOT. For one thing, there is a vast difference between physical desire and love. Physical de...

Creative Writing on First Love

enjoy each others company, happy to but there, not feeling any awkwardness at the absence of words, just feeling contented. Thes...

Women and Love According to Kahlil Gibran

talents to the relationship. They "fill each others cup but drink not from one cup/Give one another of your break but eat not from...

A Fable

before. When she was 17 and he was 20, he asked her to marry him. Thrilled, she said yes. But there was another man in the househ...

William Blake’s The Garden of Love

his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...

Love According to Plato

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

of gaining knowledge in a sole purpose of gaining friends. As the book progresses, Charlie goes through dramatic changes mentally,...

Sonnet 138 by William Shakespeare

In four pages this paper examines the symbolism in terms of how a couple's aging love is represented in the sonnet....

Love Defined

In four pages this paper asks 'What is love?' and attempts to define this complex question....

Concept of Love Defined

not get angry or confused and it does not mean that we even need to like our children. We love them no matter what they do. This m...

Self Love According to Aristotle

we love ourselves, we fill ourselves with love that we then are able to give away (Is Self-Love Justifiable? 2004). If we do not...

Love According to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Margaret Atwood

(line 7). Brownings devotion to her future mate is equated with a sense of lost innocence, as well as religious fervor. "I love th...

Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving

to what love really is because they approach it from the wrong perspective. They believe that love is something to be found house...

Love According to E. Annie Proulx, Sigmund Freud, and William Shakespeare

marriage. So Freud had roughly 1,460 sexually-oppressed days to contemplate the meaning of life and why we humans operate the way...

Jesus and Socrates

For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...

Principles for Life/Apology and Crito

if "what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man" ("Apology" 28b)(Plato 32-33). In regards to how ...

Love According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

Love According to Andrew Marvell and John Donne

In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....

Jury Member Speaks Out on Socrates’ Innocence

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

'Unexamined Life' Concept of Socrates

In eight pages this paper examines Socrates' philosophical views on self examination and the importance of motivation within the i...

Prisoners Analyzed in Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave' in The Republic

In five pages an analysis evaluates the accuracy of Socrates' description of the cave's prisoners as 'like ourselves.' There are ...

Concepts Relating to Socrates and Plato

In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...

Ascetic and Hedonistic Ideals in Protagoras by Plato

In five pages this report argues that both Protagoras and Socrates' ideals are ascetic and hedonistic as presented in Plato's dial...