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In six pages this paper examines Socrates concept of love, then compares it with the contemporary interpretation before being inte...
In four pages this paper examines how beauty and love were conceptualized by Socrates as portrayed in Symposium by Plato through i...
In five pages this paper compares the views expressed by these authors regarding women's role and the infinite nature of love. Fi...
that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...
In six pages this paper examines the Greek concept of eros or love as it is portrayed in these works by Plato and Hippolytus with ...
who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...
within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...
that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....
senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Plato's ideas regarding love with the views of Socrates and Aristophanes as expres...
she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...
between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...
In five pages this paper considers how Socrates may have delivered a speech regarding love with references made to Symposium by ...
This paper examines how love is conceptualized by Plato in Symposium when contrasted and compared with the views of Isaac Singer i...
Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...
In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views on forms held by Plato as critiqued by Aristotle with references made to...
is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...
The ancient Greek arche concept is compared with Plato's soul concept in an argument that contends Plato's conflict resolution of ...
this paper by describing what love is NOT. For one thing, there is a vast difference between physical desire and love. Physical de...
In five pages this paper considers Plato's reasons for writing Symposium in an examination of Alcibiades' speech creation. There ...
close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...
of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...
is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...
Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...
illustrates his stance which is that people, even if they are lacking, do not have the right to coerce the wealthy. Thus, if someo...
In five pages the theme of love is considered within the context of these authors and their tales. Three sources are cited in the...
thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...
the affirmative to that and other questions. Later on Socrates will ask: "And, in your opinion, do those who think that they will ...
Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...