YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato
Essays 511 - 540
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
online than in real life; the fact that they can start and end interactions whenever they choose also increases their confidence a...
unison (Rosen, 2005). Plato (1996) writes: "Is not the community of pleasure and pain the tie that binds? The sharing, to the grea...
as the emotions of like, and physical attraction (Sternberg; Barnes, 1989). Where the decision or commitment component is involves...
old age. There is a symbolic reality to the novel that is always filled with a sense of illness and decay, which are all intricate...
One author notes how "often couples in love do not see stark differences that are obvious to others in their personality. Love oft...
to her parents, her teachers, and her classmates that something was diverting her attentions from her studies and even from her fa...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
truly understand Gods word: "I ask Thee, my God: pardon my sins, and as Thou didst grant to Thy servant to speak those words, gran...
group, which itself was a well-regarded and well-educated order (Harris, 2001). As an advocate for a strong papacy, he commanded a...
Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....
for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...
a state of disinterested selflessness. Confucius (or more accurately Kung-Fu-Tzu or Kongfuzi) explains the thinking and motivati...
In ten pages this paper applies the metaphysical tradition to an analysis of Existentialism and Basic Writings by Friedrich Nietzs...
in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...
texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...
he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...
In five pages this paper discusses the connection between man's sins and the soul in this analysis of three levels of thought repr...
In five pages this research paper analyzes the theory of forms developed by Plato and then provides a defense of the philosopher's...
what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...
In five pages Plato considers whether or not virtue is a concept that can be taught in Protagoras and Meno. Twelve sources are ci...
In 5 pages the roots of justice are exposed in these respecitve works in which an imaginary dialogue between Moses, Mohammed, and ...
pious is to act like him, and not tolerate any ill act. Socrates wants more detail. Euthyphro says that what pleases the gods is ...
In this paper of fifteen pages it is Plato that is accused of treason in this new version of 'Apology' and must defend himself aga...
In ten pages this paper examines the debate on affirmative action from the viewpoint of Platonic philosophy. There are 6 sources ...
Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...
higher than those with iron. Plato argued that this deception was necessary in order to maintain a stable society, and we ca...
are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...
that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...