Eros

Agape and Eros Love In Martin Luther King’s Pilgrimage to Nonviolence he lectures about his theory that he believes would be successful in dealing with the world’s problems. He mentions different leaders who have inspired him to believe in the peaceful, non violent method and he explains the benefits of that theory. Near the end he mentions six basic aspects of this philosophy in which the fifth aspect talks about the three kinds of love, agape, philia, and eros. These kinds of love were put…

the unanimous topic of Eros, they discuss the matter with such different tones that display Eros in multiple personas. I found this striking because every single speaker viewed Eros in their own way, often shifting the mood of the dinner back and forth. Starting off with Phaedrus, he gives Eros a "heroic" feeling as he displays the God to be of noble quality, a righteous God that rewards people who display self sacrifice for love. With the quote "Thus then I claim that Eros is eldest and most…

The meaning of Eros and its functions is intricate and unique, such as how it serves. In The Symposium, by Plato, patrons evaluate Eros functions and purpose by giving their own interpretation on love. Each speech is unique and critiques previous speeches to show purpose for their own individual interpretation. Agathon concentrated on details, such as “love’s virtues”(196c) and described how others had “[failed to speak about] the nature of the god himself”(195a). However, Diotima (unveiled by…

about Eros. However, the text primarily focuses on Agathon’s and Socrates’s speeches. Agathon suggests that Eros is a young, beautiful god, who has all cardinal virtues. However, Socrates completely disagrees with Agathon. Socrates criticizes Agathon’s speech and then provides his account that Eros is a need in reproduction of beauty, called the ladder of love. I. To start, Agathon begins his speech by criticizing the previous speeches for concentrating on the benefits bestowed by Eros rather…

The Uncontrollable Forces of Desire Desire is a consuming force that causes the body to act without consulting the mind. Sappho’s fragments in, If Not, Winter, creates experiences in which; eros produces a gap between the subject and the desired object. Eros is composed of the powerful, unconstrained forces of desire, attraction, and love. It has complete dominance over a person who is longing after another. The use of syntax, simile, and overt symbolism within fragment 105A; allows Sappho’s…

love could actually be categorized into three different classes: eros, agape, and phileo. These three types, although distinct in what they display, would all come to be adopted into the practice of Christianity in relation to how we feel about those around us. Being the most self-centered of the three forms, eros helps depict the more humanized feelings in love, such as lust and pleasure. Derived from the Greek word erasthai, eros seemingly…

There are many ways people love others. Some examples are Eros, who are hopeless romantics and fall in love at first sight. Then there are Ludus who don’t think love is the most important thing in the world. There are many other types in-between, such as mania, storge, and pagma. Romeo and Juliet are both Eros lovers for many reasons, such as when they meet and the undying love they find within each other in such a little time. There are many other reasons as to why they are the kind of lovers…

pleasure principle fulfilled by Eros (sexual love, desire for life) and Thanatos (aggressiveness, desire for death), regardless of the consequences (VI). However, civilization’s goal is to work in “the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind” (VII). Therefore, in order to foster a stable and productive society, each individual’s instincts for eros and thanatos must…

Superior “Love” In the Symposium, eros is considered as the love between boys and men, while the true friendship is wishing for the well-being of others in the Nicomachean Ethics and the compassion is a strong feeling to sharing the pain of the whole world in The Heart of Understanding. Considering love to be a strong feeling of affection, eros, the true friendship and compassion can all be described as “love”. Love can be explored from 3 dimensions, the reason for love, the form of expression…

The organized universe drove Eros insane. Everything was always placed perfectly; like it was meticulously thought out to maintain absolute control of the universe. Every turn of his head would send his curly, brown hair flopping over and his matching, chocolate eyes into a daze of red. The gray, frosted mountains sent his well defined, muscular chest into a frenzy and caused his heart to beat so fast it burned. Pedestals for all important gods and goddesses surrounded him, sending him into an…