...Greek God Eros In the ancient period, society believed that both the world and the universe were developed by many multiple deities, gods and spirits, whom they worshiped. These legends, tell of the gods and their adventure are called myths. The main point of mythology is to assert an issue in life and connect people’s past. Civilization still does not know what or how people tumble upon love. The plea lays in Eros, or Cupid, the God of love in Greek Mythology. Eros was the cause love which unfolds the mystery of the existence of love. Eros, also know by Cupid, is the god of love, passion, and sexual desire. He is the son of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and Aries, the god of war. He has the power to bring love to both gods and mortals. He also has the power to shoot love and hatred arrows. His love arrows were golden with dove feathers and his hatred arrows were made out of lead with owl feathers. These arrows were used to induce love. Eros was frequently at his mother’s lateral supporting her in all her devise and godly intrigue. Men were departing, leaving her altars desolated, worshiping alternatively an essential mortal female. She was the Goddess of the soul; Psyche. Aphrodite demanded Eros to forcefully induce Psyche to fall in love with the hideous male on earth. Eros assumed his mother’s pleads. Instead Eros fell profoundly in love with Psyche’s beauty. Eros appeared without exception by night, but he asked Psyche not to aglow her alcove. Psyche was in love with the...
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...Eros and Agape Mr. Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Wilmington University Eros and Agape Love is a powerful intoxicating emotion; it has prevailed over centuries of tribulations, and has helped mankind endure countless attacks of evil, and the unfortunate privation of life. Original sin unveiled intelligence that essentially hardened mankind’s hearts; it set us upon the path of hardships that spawned a need for redemption. It is important to note that there are actually four types of love which I suppose we’ve all experienced sometime in our lives. First there is Philos, which means friendship or brotherly love, the word is derived from Philadelphia, known as the “City of Brotherly Love”, second is Storge, which is a family love, referring to the close bond among mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers, third is Eros, which refers to natural or sexual love that can exist between a man and a woman, and lastly Agape, also known as supernatural love, which refers to the unearned love God has for humanity, and, the love we should have for our neighbors’ salvation. Although there are several types of love, let’s evaluate and make distinction between Eros and Agape. Lets’ refer back to the beginning to explain the present. When I was young, I’ve heard that for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. This may be the best example of agape, the unearned love God has for humanity. Consequently...
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...concepts I am learning about for evaluating art. The two works of art I chose to compare are The Eros Sleeping at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Aphrodite at the Louvre Musuem. The Eros Sleeping is my first choice for a piece of art between 30,000 B.C. and 500 C.E. I think this is a beautiful piece of art. While looking through thousands and thousands works of art at several different museum sites this piece really caught my eye. The Eros Sleeping is a bronze statue from the Hellenistic period, and dated at the 3rd-2nd century B.C. It is one of a few bronze statues to have survived from antiquity. The statue is of a cute little chubby baby with wings asleep on a rock that was added at a later date. (Eros Sleeping, nd) The second work of art I chose was also from the Hellenistic period and was dated to 100 B. C is The Aphrodite. Aphrodite is a beautiful Greek sculpture of a half- naked woman sort of leaning to one side. (Aphrodite, nd) Two blocks of marble were used to make it. Her arms were never found. Both piece to me are masterpieces, but kind of hard to compare. The Eros Sleeping is made out of bronze whereas Aphrodite is made out of marble. Both pieces are three dimensional. Neither piece has any color but I have read that the Aphrodite once wore metal jewelry. She wore a headband, earrings, and a bracelet. The holes still remain. The Eros Sleeping and the Aphrodite are sculpted with so much detail it is amazing. Aphrodite is very life...
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..."Love," used in modern society, can mean a vast number of different things. One can express love for one's spouse, one's country, one's cat, cheesecake or a certain football team. Not all kinds of love are the same. C.S. Lewis wrote The Four Loves to discuss the meaning of what he believes is the biblical four different kinds of love. C.S. Lewis began The Four Loves as a study of what he believed were the two types of love manifested in the world. These were "gift-love," which was illustrated by a man working to provide for his family, and "need-love," which was illustrated by a child seeking the comfort of its mother. Then, Lewis added a third category, which he called "appreciative love." Lewis went on to define the way these three types...
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...The Four Loves is philosophical Literature based on the different loves described in Greek thought. Consider what Lewis indicates about each one of the four loves, familial or affectionate love (storge), friendship (philia), romantic love (Eros), and spiritual love (agape), and present your own philosophical treatment for each of these. Incorporate 2 to 3 scholarly research sources for this argument essay. Use MLA citation. Create an argument that is 4 to 5 double-spaced pages, exclusive of the work cited page. Consult the Writing Rubric. Proofreads thoroughly. 15th Century philosopher, Francois De La Rochefund stated, “There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.” In The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis presented his philosophical view on The Four Loves as described in Greek thought. They are, namely, Familial or Affectionate love, Friendship, Romantic love and, Spiritual love. Lewis led the readers to reflect on his interpretation of each type as he tried to prove that the real glory of the natural loves lies in the divine love of God. This divine love is the highest form of love, and all the other loves are its offspring. Lewis first discussed the affectionate love also known as Storge. According to Lewis, “almost anyone can become an object of affection It ignores the barriers of sex, age, class, education” (p. 55 -56). There are different types of attachment that may develop between two persons or between an individual and an object. This affection...
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...seminar made me realize a lot of things about love, sex and marriage. Growing up in a conservative family sex was never an open topic, erotic topics and sexual jokes should be kept to oneself or in private. Sex often times is an uncomfortable topic but in our Catholic dominated culture it's considered as a taboo topic. People refuse to acknowledge it in fear of the disastrous and bad things that are correlated to sex due to its sensitivity, they consider it as sacred and holy. Time and sin had disrupted the importance of sex even in the lives of Christians. That should not be the case because our bodies are created by God in his image and we should not be ashamed of it. In the first part of the seminar the speaker asked a few volunteers to go up the stage, they shyly talked about their private parts and what they used to call it in front of a large audience. It was seen that the volunteers were embarrassed and uncomfortable and at the same time that the audience saw the topic as something green and were laughing about it. Fr. Maxwell then said that “ (erotic love) is not to be confused with Lust”. Eros One may come before or after another but they must not be mistaken as the same. Sin has disordered, disoriented and and distorted eros and our concept of sex. Eros is not just about sex, the real definition ...
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...Is Daphnis and Chloe a Religious novel? The story of Daphnis and Chloe The story of Daphnis and Chloe pays homage to the God of love, Eros, Pan, and the Nypmhs with Dionysius and Hermes also present within the story, The role of the Gods in the novel is one of protection towards the essential love plot of Daphnis and Chloe, Whilst it is important to not take the Gods involvement away from the nature of love ( a dominant theme of the book) The religious themes of the novel are already apparent in the title, without even opening the pages a reader with a knowledge of greek lore and myth will already relate the name Daphnis to its greek meaning of ‘Laurus nobilis’ or ‘Bay Laurel’ which stood as a significant symbol to Apollo, Daphnis himself in greek myth was citied to be the child of Hermes and a Nymph who struggled to contain himself and subsequently lost his eyesight at the wrath of a infatuated nymph. The similarities between the Mythological Daphnis and Longus’ Daphnis would suggest that Longus intended to relate his character to the legend. However in the novel Daphnis barely portrays any of the divine features which the legend holds, the word ‘par excellence’ is used in relation to the Legend, the word meaning ‘Better than all others of the same kind’ and it does not relate to Longus’ Daphnis . Furthermore the name Daphnis was a commonly used name in Greek literature especially in pastoral poetry which is hardly surprising seeing as the Legend is supposedly the...
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...In the myth Psyche and Eros adapted from Wonder Stories by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, a young most beautiful girl who fell in love with Eros a god. Aphrodite doesn’t like them being together, but Psyche with her own struggling ways made it so Eros doesn’t trust her unintentionally. Psyche wanted Eros back, so she went out in search for him and found Demeter, who told to go to Aphrodite herself. She went out to find Aphrodite, who went and set out challenges for her to complete. Psyche perseverance through the challenges that lead to getting Eros back. At the beginning of the story, Psyche struggle with the lost of Eros. Eros got sick and tired of her not trusting him when he disobeyed his mother for her. “ That was the beginning of the...
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...for good reason, why these three gods or sets of gods? Then in the final book, Daphnis gives “a0naqh/mata…tw~| Dionu/sw|…tw~| Pani\...tai~j Nu/mfaij” (4.26.6-8). Here Dionysus has filled the place of Eros, or, as I shall argue, Dionysus represents the same universal force as Eros in the earlier books. These divinities, Eros/Dionysus, Pan, and the Nymphs, directly influence the lives of the titular protagonists. Their influence serves different purposes depending on what the situation calls for, but, overall, the influences could be labeled as such: Eros/Dionysus controls their lives, the Nymphs nurture the youths, and Pan enflames their passion. In many Greek novels, Eros functions as a stock figure, “not much more than a convenient method of setting [the] plot in motion” (Turner 119). Critics have heavily studied the role of Eros in this novel, and many find that the text of Daphnis and Chloe can be seen as an introductory text for syncretic monotheistic religions, specifically that of Orphic Dionysus. This argument holds valid, yet, I think, over reads the text, and Chalk admits as an introductory text, it is merely “allusive” and not clearly instructive (36). Philetas certainly describes the “cosmic Eros” found in Hesiod’s Theognis in his interaction with Eros in his garden, but overall that Eros functions better for the book’s aim than the Eros subordinated to Aphrodite (Chalk 35). Epstein argues, and I agree, that Longus uses this Eros because he represents the link between...
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...Three types of love: eros, philos and agape. Love is a concept that one can explain with many different words. It is very easy to tell the definition of love but difficult to live in the real life. Love is something that is intrinsically in our nature. One can definite love, but one cannot dictate how, when and where love expresses itself. Plato, an old Greek philosopher describes three types of love in his book the Banquet. All of these classifications of love do happen in the human world, although every single person shows how they differ greatly in his or her life. In that Greek language, love can be classified as eros, philos, or agape. Each one depends upon the relationship of the people experiencing the love. In the first place, the most commonly known is eros, the love that always happens between two people. This first of the three classifications applies to romantic relationships among humans. Even though this rank of love is a visceral love, eros or erotic love as English speakers people now refer to it, occurs when physical and sexual attraction bring the participants together. It causes the sensation of feel butterflies into the stomach, and the people to become romantically or sexually involved. As an illustration, in the decade of adolescence, teenagers can experience the love at first sight when they feel the attraction for another person of the other gender. They just want to satisfy their emotions due to the corporal changes in their bodies. This level...
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...What is Love? A Conceptual Analysis of "Love", focusing on the Love Theories of Plato, St. Augustine and Freud Nico Nuyens GRIPh Working Papers No. 0901 This paper can be downloaded without charge from the GRIPh Working Paper Series website: http//www.rug.nl/filosofie/GRIPh/workingpapers What is love? A Conceptual Analysis of “Love”, focusing on the Love Theories of Plato, St. Augustine and Freud CONTENTS INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 1 1. FORMAL ANALYSIS OF LOVE............................................................................... 3 2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF LOVE........................................................................... 6 3. HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF LOVE....................................................................... 9 3.1 ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY: PLATO ..................................................................... 11 3.2 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY: SAINT AUGUSTINE............................................................ 18 3.3 MODERN PHILOSOPHY: FREUD ................................................................................. 27 4. COMPARATIVE EVALUATION............................................................................ 37 CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................. 40 REFERENCES....................................................................
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...Love in Ancient Times Defining Love in Ancient Civilizations [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] The ancient Greeks and Romans seemed to have a very different outlook on love then we do in modern western civilization, specifically their views about who can be in love, or what is considered expectable behavior in popular culture. When looking for what it means to love in ancient Greece it is hard to find any information that does not have their beliefs on homosexuality. I’m not sure what love has to do with being heterosexual or homosexual, but I will try to explain love in ancient Greece despite this setback. Love is generally defined as devotion or great caring for an individual or a specific task or object. It can be have so many different meanings it is very difficult to narrow it down to one singular meaning. Love meens so many different things to so many different people. How do you avoid confusing it with infatuation or lust? Philosophers and psychologists both have attempted to define love, per least its difference from infatuation and lust. If you are looking to find love, the following observations may be helpful. Love is much more than a risk, but is a risk that one can take and grasp and fall into a dark abyss or dig oneself a hole and only crawl back when you...
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...EROS AND THANATOS INTRODUCTION Any student of the psychotherapies would have heard of the terms: Eros and thanatos Libido and mortido Life instinct and the death instinct If they have not heard of them then they should have! Freud seized on this concept and it became central in his overall theory of human nature. In his book “The ego and the id” he discusses this theory of instincts at length. Freud[1962] in his discussion of the two classes of instincts states that the first class is the sexual instincts or Eros. This is a "...selfpreservative instinct,..."(P30). On the other hand there is the death instinct whose task it is to, "...lead organic life back into the inanimate state;..."(P30). He is thus entering into the field of the philosophy of opposites. Human nature, life and the universe is unerringly a collection of opposites. The answer to the question, “Is it possible to have something that does not have an opposite?” begs unending cognition. Hyams(1998) notes this in her article on dissociation. She says that the world is full of polarities - good/bad, inhaling/exhaling, high/low and so on. In addition the is yin/yang, protons/electrons, left/right, black/white, matter/anti-matter and so on endlessly. Does something exist that does not have an opposite? I am yet to think of one. As soon as one defines ‘x’, then ‘not x’ is immediately defined as well. However that is for the philosophers to conjugate over. THEORY OF OPPOSITES Freud’s theory of these two instincts certainly...
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...Christopher Williams Professor Justin Ryals History Repeats My idea of Greek concepts was the configuration, understanding, and deduction of human virtues. It’s practically blatant with the continuous rise of philosophers. I chose the concepts; Arete, Sophia, Eros, Eudaimonia, and Eunomia. I chose these concepts because they are all concepts that show that people were not only trying to be good people, but the best people they could be. They put these concepts into the form of gods and gate keepers of heaven so people would strive to do right. The continuous literature and artwork put into these concepts is something you no longer see, and that is something I see wrong in the world today. The world today seems to be a very selfish and arrogant place. And I believe the return of these concepts would make life better for all. My first concept arête is seen in many different areas, such as; Achilles in the Illiad because he is the best warrior that man could be. Or, Penelope in the odyssey because she is the best wife that woman could be. The Parthenon is a prime example that Arete isn’t just held to people but also well strongly constructed building, a strong animal, or beautiful pottery. Arete means virtue or excellence of any kind. It meant living up to ones full potential. In Plato’s “Allegory Of The Cave”, the perfect form of something was its arête, what everything, and everyone is trying to get to. As Plato says,” arête is something you are always trying to achieve...
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...context of marriage today. The story of Hosea’s marital and family experiences is remarkable for the insights it offers concerning the biblical message as a whole. It demonstrates the supremacy of love over law. In this chapter therefore, we shall see how law and love overlap in marriage; this will then be followed by an analysis of eros and agape in the light of Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical, Deus Caritas Est. The basis of the legal maxim “neccesitas non habetlegem” will then be established by looking at the centrality of love in marriage; modelled in the life of the Trinity....
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