Platonic Love In the Symposium, which is normally dated at the beginning of the middle period, Plato introduces his theory of love. First thing to note is that in Plato’s theory, love is given and its existence is not questioned. The word love leaves the matter ambiguous as to whether we are discussing love in the normal, human, sense of the word, or if we are discussing desire in a much broader sense, but in this discussion we are only considering only love of type eros, love as a kind
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the relationship are understood by all and taking seriously for the potential harm that can happen. According to Vault.com, a career information website, in a 2007 study 23% of people claimed to have a work spouse. A work spouse is in general a platonic relationship best friend type relationship that you have with a person of the opposite sex. This relationship resembles the relationship that you have with your true spouse without the sexual components. For example your work spouse is the first
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To what extent does Donne present the lovers as equal in “To His Mistress Going To Bed”? According to the Platonic formulation, beauty is ranked in several stages where we begin by being attracted to a single beautiful person, then beautiful minds, on to beautiful ideas, and finally, to beauty itself. In the poem, it appears that the narrator is stuck on the first rung. He is simply blinded by his mistress’ beauty; unable to describe anything other than her appearance and subsequently treats her
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and Love In the Symposium written by Plato we are recounted on the speeches made on the praise of love, by six different men. Beginning with Phaedrus, leading up to Socrates. In Phaedrus speech he sees Love as the oldest of Gods (Plato 10). He indicates how powerful an army would become simply by composing it of lovers. All because one is their absolute greatest, less cowardly in the presence of their lover. Therefore, more willingly to die for each other. Phaedrus is quoted saying, “Love is the
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Term Paper My experience at a Sixth Century Athenian Symposium Growing up as the son of a well-known politician certainly has its perks and through time I have come to know that. My mother cared for me throughout my early childhood.1 She would always tell me stories of how she almost did not make it after giving birth to me and was relieved to find out I was a boy; for if I was born a girl my father would have certainly sent me away to either
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In one of Plato's most influential original work The Symposium, he clearly expresses his view of the forms, love and beauty, through Socrates retelling a discussion he had once with Diotima at a symposium Agathon held. Plato believes love to be the possession of the good (Plato, 86) and its purpose is to eventually reproduce beauty, which he believes to be wisdom. This reproducing of beauty then leads to what Plato believed to be true immortality which is evident in the following quotation stated
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the genesis, purpose, and nature of love. The explanations of love, given by the various men at the symposium, seem to largely be center around “Platonic love.” Platonic love to the men of The Symposium typically involved sexual relations with a young boy, in exchange for education in wisdom and virtues. Socrates in The Symposium best explains this notion of ‘platonic’ love. A platonic relationship today can be both hetero and homosexual, though today ‘platonic’ implies there are no sexual relations
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Lescaut by The Abbe Prevost is a traditional love story between “star-crossed” male and female lovers. However, it is also the story of a "bromantic" relationship between Chevalier des Grieux and his loyal friend Tiberge. In recent years, “bromance” is has become trendy in television and films, such as the ongoing close platonic relationships among characters in the television series House (Dr. House and Dr. Wilson) or in movies such I Love You, Man and the Hangover series. However, Manon
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Romeo and Juliet believed to be a play which uncloaks the true emotion of love. A play which portrays the tragedies, tensions and disagreements that arise between the families of two lovers, and how platonic love can be mitigated with loathsome feelings resulting in death. Is it fair for a feeling like love, so pure to result in death? Before act 1 scene 1 starts, the opening lines of the prologue are salient because they tell the audience of what could be and what should be fairness and dignity
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Forms of Love in Plato's Symposium Love, in classical Greek literature, is commonly considered as a prominent theme. Love, in present days, always appears in the categories of books, movies or music, etc. Interpreted differently by different people, Love turns into a multi-faceted being. In Plato’s work Symposium, Phaedrus, Pausania, Eryximachus, Aristophane and Agathon, each of them presents a speech to either praise or definite Love. Phaedrus first points out that Love is the primordial god;
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