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55 Cards in this Set
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Dead Poets Society: Robin Williams describes nature of poetry.
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Carpe Diem: The idea of living your life and not wasting it away til you die.
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“the desire to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own and another’s spiritual growth.”
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E. Fromm: Nurture one's spiritual growth.
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“spiritual force that unites and binds all of life and that inspires resistance to injustice, inequality and oppression."
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Dr. King: Love is about unity and bringing everyone together; Love is a concern for the downtrodden & needy, the poor and the disadvantaged.
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“Love is a particular set of insights, a process that is motivated by passion and focused with affection.”
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Robert Solomon: love is a form of knowing: it gives you a knowledge & understanding of the world, of yourself, & others that you CANNOT have w/o love.
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Spirituality
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intuition based and an experiential knowledge of oneself and the world. Includes intuition and religion.
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Intuition
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an immediate or direct apprehension of a truth not based on reason or logic alone.
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Religion
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feeling or intuition of an ultimate reality
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Eros
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Eros is both sensual and spiritual; there is a longing and desire for completeness and wholeness. Eros gives one a wisdom that cannot be achieved without the experience of love. Eros bring a vision of a different, better self.
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Themes of Poetry
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Poetry helps one feel and experience a particular idea or concept. (unites the mind and heart). Poetry is a companion of music; originated from song and chant (describe experiences & ideas with or without words). Poetry is a reinvention and re-creation of language ordinary and bring banal phase. Poetry is meant to be a sensual experience heightens the sense: taste, touch, scent, hearing—use of metaphor to get an emotion of feeling across.
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Themes of Poetry quotes.
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"My tongue is broken”—Sappho
“I am a poet of the body. I am a pet of the soul”—Walt Whitman “I just like a clock, I tic and I talk”—Dr. Dre. |
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Sappho on love
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Sappho talks about leaving one breathless, and love makes you feel joyful. Sappho uses the term fire which is commonly used to describe love but is this type of love is temporary, and would not always be true love. Also talks being ravished by love, the ecstasy of love.
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“Why do all these words seem so dull and cold? It is because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”
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James Joyce on love
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“it puts the heart in my chest on wings”
“my tongue is broken” |
Sappho
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“Poetry is something as evident as immediate and indefinable as love, taste of fruit, or water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of woman, or as we feel a mountain. If we feel it, why dilute it with words.”
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Borges
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“Our lives and the world itself is pure, surprising marvelous mystery”; “I am a poet of the body. I am a pet of the soul”.
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Walt Whitman
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“You who live secure in you warm house, who return at evening to find not food and friendly faces: consider this, whether this is a man who labors in the mud, who knows no peace, who dies at a yes or no, who fights for a crust of bread. I command these words to you, Engrave them on your hearts, when you are in your houses, when you walk on your way, when you rise from bed, repeat them to your children.”
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Primo Levi
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trust in another person, it requires some amount of risk.
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Faith
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What are required because there is no absolute proof of certainty that the love is real and will endure
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Love and Faith
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Edward Norton explained faith as a...
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feeling/hunch
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Pablo Neruda nature of poetry?
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The nature of poetry captures the rhythm of nature.
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Themes of Pablo Nerudo's movie.
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1) Images arrive spontaneously
2) One most feel or experience poetry 3)Metaphors are used and is an important part of poetry. |
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Early origins of Eros
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Eros is the Son of Aphrodite;
Eros was seen as one of the first gods; “The force behind the birth of all things in the universe |
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dialogue during dinner party on the nature of love.
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Symposium
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Humans once were round being with four arms and legs and two faces, separated and now looking for their other half.
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Aristophanes
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Love is the cure and healer of the troubles and ailments of the human soul.
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Eryximachus
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Saw Eros as a mediator between the gods and humanity but did not see Eros as a god himself. Socrates also saw women as equals.
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Socrates
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God of wine and masks (actor); human experiences that are wild, ecstatic, passionate, irrational, sensual, playful, intense, emotional.
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Dionysian
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God of reason; human experiences that are reasonable, moderate, constrained, spiritual, controlled, practical.
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Apollonian
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ideal love is balance between the Dionysus and the Apollonian—love needs to have both sides, wild yet reasonable, passionate but controlled.
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Nietzsche
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Why is Socerates called Silenus?
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Silenus is considered a god, the god of wine and music; drunkenness, the Prophet of wisdom through wine. Socrates is called this because love was always coming up during dinner parties.
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What did the Oracle at Delphi tell Socrates?
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Socrates disproves the Oracle at Delphi. “Know thyself”. Oracle told Socrates he is the wisest man in Athens, but Socrates didn’t believe him and went on a journey to find a man wiser than he is. Only to find that he is truly wise because he was not full of himself in expecting the news from the Oracle.
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Socrates influence on the young people?
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Socrates was challenging young people and their religious beliefs of their ancestors (traditional Greek religions). The people of Athens thought Socrates was corrupting the young people.
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Socrates complaint about the people of Athens?
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Socrates was considered an atheist in his time, but he did believe in god. Socrates believed that the Greek gods were human.
“Oh you people of Athens, you spend so much time in the pursuit of wealth. Power and glory and devote so little time to the well being of your soul. |
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Philosophia
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friendship-love or love of wisdom love of something in a non-romantic way.
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Philosophy
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is not just an intellectual exercise, but it is a way of life, it requires a commitment of mind, body and soul.
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How is philosophy different from moderns approaches to philosophy?
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This is different from modern approaches because it was a way of life; spiritual mode of being.
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Legends of love of Orpheus and Eurydice?
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Eurydice (girl) was a nymph and Orpheus musically gifted. Orpheus seduces her with his music and she falls in love. Eurydice is killed by half-brother of Orpheus. Orpheus goes to the underworld to save her.
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Origins of the troubadours and their conception of love?
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Origins are the Islamic tradition. Context of the crusades: while many of the men were fighting in the crusades, women turned to the men around them and developed traditions of poetry outside the boundaries of marriage.
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How did the Troubadours understanding of love change the meaning of human love?
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The idea of unrequited (unreturned) or unfilled love. Ibn Arabi—Wonder. Celebrated human love in a positive way. Dante—looking beyond a woman’s beauty
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Meaning of storage?
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Family love—this includes extended family. Ex: your tribe or nation
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Positives implications and Negative implications of storage?
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Negative implications: Racism, nationalism. Positive implications:
Family love, and culture pride |
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Socrates death related to storage?
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He died for the love of his family (nation), much like Christ. Socrates died because he had to keep his love and wisdom alive.
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Connection between Jose Marti and storage?
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His storage is that he found a love for his land, a love for Cuba. But his body remained in exile (Cuba had win independence). Blind love—he warned against.
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Ubuntu
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Ethic of humanistic philosophy focusing on people’s allegiance and relations with each other: “I am who I am because of who we all are”
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Reasons for the demise of Athens?
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Conflict between the two sides became inevitable rather than guarding against Sun Tzu’s Five Fatal Qualities. Socrates: “any military leader who fails to learn how to command in fashion ought to be punished.” 2nd Peloponnesian war, sibling rivalry, fighting not because different but because the same. Obsessed with possession and power.
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Socrates as both a sculptor and midwife?
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Socrates is a midwife because he helps people give birth to themselves by helping them discover themselves.
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Xenia in ancient Greece?
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Love of strangers
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Religious motives underlying Xenia?
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Greek gods would change appearances so except others because god is everyone and everywhere—much like Catholicism.
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contemporary example of xenia concerning US border?
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U.S. border: building a wall is not xenia because then you cannot have someone eat at your table. Listening to the bible (levitacus) is loving thy neighbor: Let others eat at your table; Do it for yourself not for a return; Always be open to have someone come over
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Philia meaning?
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Friendship Love
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How is umma related to philia?
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Umma: community or people. It is related in that you should help each other out, having friendship within the community.
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Meaning of agape?
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Unconditional love/self-sacrificial, love of humanity and God, it’s a universal love.
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How is agape different from other kinds of love?
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If the three other loves are not blended with agape, then they cannot be fully exhibited and will be distorted. Humans cannot experience agape unless they accept God into their hearts first.
Acting out of Christian agape: assert, desire solely what is best for the beloved. |
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Leo Tolstoy meaning of love in Christianity?
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Interpreted love as returning good for evil. Unconditional love. He was driven from the church but not from Christianity
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Adorno, Elie Weisel, U2, Bono, and Victor Frankl illustrate the theme of agape?
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Nihilism: cultures lacking in love—the expression of life as meaningless, empty, and loveless. There is no purpose to life, there is only empty pleasures.
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