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How does Lewis account for the problem of animal pain |
animals are not capable of sin neither deserve pain or be improved by it, it is outside the range of our knowledge the appearance of divine cruelty in the animal kingdom is an illusion the fact that something has live does not matter until sentience appears higher animals have nervous systems similar to ours distinguish sentience from consciousness they would need to be aware of themselves and their memories animal would not be able to understand that they are in pain only that pain is talking place in the animal also evil of the animal world comes from the fact that some animals live by destroying each other satanic corruption some higher animals do seem to have selfs animals are immortal? man are appointed by god to have dominion over beasts self in these animals comes from man certain animals may have an imortality not in themselves but in the immortality of their masters beasts are subordinate to man destiny is related to his |
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love in Aristophanes |
man and woman were originally together in one body until Zeus decided to cut them in half because they were too powerful longed for their other half love is our desire to be complete pursuit for wholeness love is belonging and desire no separation love does the best that can be done for the time being love is connected to a force beyond human realm emphasis on piety being pious is same as being good |
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loves in Socrates |
love is a lover of wisdom inbetween being wise and being ignorant love is good and beautiful love is being a lover loving good things desire for happiness and good things one does not seek other half unless it is also good love is beauty in body or soul must desire immortality along with good beauty of souls better than beauty of bodies beauty of knowledge |
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Socrates and Aristophanes similarities |
in both love is a desire for happiness in aristophanes because they are unhappy when they are apart desire to be whole/happy in both love is a desire for goodness because in aristophanes they desire to be pious which is a desire to be good so that they can be one being again with their other half |
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Socrates and Aristophanes differences |
in socrates love is the love of the beauty in aristophanes it doesn't matter if they're beautiful or not they just had to be their other half in aristophane love is the yearning to be whole so they wish to never be separated in socrates there is no longing to be whole they are ok with being separated they believe that love is the lover of wisdom love them because they make you more wise make you better not because they make you complete |
