“Love is the desire to have the good forever.†Diotima continues with saying that “every type of desire for good things or happiness is what constitutes ‘powerful and treacherous love’â€Â. Diotima describes love as something that can be obtained through enthusiasm when it is only directed at one thing at a time. However‚ she also describes love as a longing for immortality‚ in that the closest mortals can come to being permanently alive and immortal is through reproduction
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Plato’s Symposium‚ he tells a story of a dinner party that unfolded in Athens‚ at Agathon’s (The Poet) house‚ with guest such as (Socrates‚ Phaedrus‚ Aristophanes‚ etc) who was later ask to give a speech about what they thought Love is. After‚ everyone has spoken and at this point a little drunk‚ Socrates expresses‚ how most of us start to learn about love in a very immediate and physical way‚ by being powerfully attracted to a person’s face‚ and body‚ this would be called romantic/sexual love or the
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influence us. Specifically‚ both Aristophanes and Sappho were philosophers born in Greece and spent time discussing matters of love. Although both theorists comprehend love differently‚ they both relate sincerely. By means of their views of love and intimacy we can relate our lives to their concepts to have a greater understanding of what true love may mean to us. In the speech of Aristophanes named Plato’s Symposium he speaks about the origin of love. Aristophanes tries to enlighten a party of men
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In the Symposium‚ one of Plato’s most popular texts; Agathon‚ a Greek poet‚ gathers a group of men together in celebration. As the drinking party‚ or the symposium draws on the subject of love ‚ it’s meaning and it’s state soon comes up. Agathon decides that each man in attendance is required to deliver an encomium‚ or speech on the topic. Each man gives his own he recount of what he believes is the true nature of love. The last man to speak before Socrates is the host himself‚ Agathon. He decides
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The views of ethics vary greatly when talking about Plato and Aristotle. Aristotle has his own views even though such an influential man like Plato taught him. Plato and Aristotle try to deliver this universal system of ethical principals that will determine good and bad. Through doing so they realizes their differences in what they believe. Plato and Aristotle can both agree that good is happiness and in order to continue the good you must exercise self-fulfillment through integrity. Plato believes
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The views of Plato and Aristotle are different but to some extent similar. Plato was mostly known for Theory of Forms and Aristotle was basically known for his thoughts in metaphysics. Even though they both thought a bit differently they did agree in a few things‚ for instance‚ Plato and Aristotle not only impacted social life in the past but the future‚ in fact some still use it in today’s society. Plato was a student of Socrate’s. He founded the first University called Academy in the year 387
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his wife so she would run his household as he saw fit‚ so she did not damage his reputation‚ and so he knew the paternity of his children. A husband wanted the girl to be closely controlled by her father before she married for the same reasons. Aristophanes’ comedies and Xenophon’s Oeconomicus contain very different depictions of a Greek citizen woman’s life before she is married and during the time shortly after she is married. Both the comedies and Oeconomicus examine how girls were educated‚ how
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Plato was one of Socrates’ greatest admirers‚ and our knowledge of Socrates stems mostly from Plato’s dialogues. Plato wrote his dialogues so that his students could read them out to each other and from a phrase discuss what it is about. Plato’s thought is mostly recorded in the form of dialogues that feature Socrates as the protagonist. The symposium was written between the middle and the late period‚ and the figure of Socrates serves more as a mouth piece for Plato’s own views. For instance
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protest. She convinces all of the other women of Athens and Sparta to follow this strike to force the men to make peace. Lysistrata was written by Aristophanes in 411 B.C and is classified as a stage play and is said to be old comedy.
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Plato’s theory of Love: Rationality as Passion Lydia Amir ’I … profess to understand nothing but matters of love. ’ Socrates in Plato’s Symposium. times‚ when due to their education and to political changes‚ women earned the right to love and to be loved as equals to men. Introduction One of the most influential traditions of love in the Western world is Platonism. Originating with Plato’s writings on love (mainly the Symposium whose explicit subject is the nature of love and Phaedrus‚ but also
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