YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Symposium by Plato and the Concept of Love
Essays 61 - 90
In three pages this paper considers how Plato's text reveals virtue to be not a single entity but rather deeply connected to other...
In six pages this paper compares contemporary religious views with Plato's philosophical concepts with God's existence, morality, ...
so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...
a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...
This 5 page paper examines the way in which one can use the Socratic method to find the truth. The writer also discusses the conce...
In five pages Socrates' concepts of ethics, piety, and justice are discussed as they are represented in Plato's Crito and Euthyp...
In five pages this paper discusses how human standards can be lived up to in a consideration of the Old Testament's unrighteousnes...
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...
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...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...
distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...
This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...
good gifts to their friends and family but often do not have the expenses which would allow them to do so. However, people may use...
terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...
the supreme principle, the fundamental principle on which any well-ordered society could live (Bhandari, nd). Plato was certainl...
reliance on Gods righteousness, he became determined to seek revenge upon the landowners family. However, before he could do so af...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
In five pages the differing political views between Plato and his one time philosophy student Aristotle are discussed with Plato's...
In five pages this report examines the plays Love's Labor's Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream in terms of William Shakespeare's d...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....
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...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
characters and their quest for happiness, despite the fact their lives are typically mired in chaos and confusion. Carver presents...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
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...
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...