Eros

Four Loves In C.S. Lewis’ book, Four Loves, he writes on the topic of love and outlines four different categories or types of love including: Affection, Friendship, Eros, and Charity. Throughout his book, Lewis explores each type of love and explains how each type is important. Love is often perceived as a beautiful, but confusing concept that people struggle to talk about. However, after reading this book, I have gained a new understanding on what it means to love and how I love the most.…

Love in Carver. Carver doesn't talk about Love. He doesn't mention love. The word love comes up only twice in Will you please be quiet, please? just as a vocative. It's not used at all in A small, good thing. Does Carver talk about love? What links these people? What brought them together in the first place? And, what's love from his point of view? In the beginning of Will you please be quiet, please?, Carver says that Ralph's father told him that life was a 'very serious matter'. Ralph,…

The passage that I found most interesting in The Symposium is related to the speech of Aristophanes, which defines the changing nature of love as a mythical and biological definition in the human condition: “First you must learn what human nature is in the beginning and what has happened to it since, because long ago our nature was not what it is now” (Plato p.25, 189d). In this passage, Aristophanes is defining the mythical story of the differences between human beings in the biology of sex,…

literature and art, to a level of brilliance that has rarely ever been surpassed. These greek writers made works of art that have motivated and impacted many to the present day. Many of these texts and arts represent greek concepts like: hubris, arete, eros, polis, and paideia; these ideologies relate to the influence on human nature and politics on the ancient Greek society. These specific concepts can be observed in works like The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer, illustrations on Greek pottery…

Love is an abstract concept with many different meanings and definitions which can range from dear friend to passionate lover. Many psychologists have 6 or more categories for love; however the Greeks define love into four different categories such as Eros, Storge, Agape, and Philia. Each with a different meaning, signifying different types of love that can be felt. We have experienced at least three of the four types in our life and may experience all four in our lifetime. Not only did the…

displayed on the cross. Agape love may not often be thought of as eros, but I believe that agape love that a man has for a woman or that a woman has for a man plays a vital part in a lasting romantic love. Though there are many characteristics that I believe Biblical romantic love will take on, I will go over three in this…

Review on The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis. The four loves is a book about different types of love written by C. S. Lewis (1898-1963). Lewis was a man of many occupations such as Novelist, scholar, broadcaster and English literature tutor, but for this purpose a British novelist, who studied at Oxford University and was married to Joy Davidman and is still celebrated for his wonderful works. Apart from The four loves, he wrote other books like, The Allegory of Love, Boxen, God in the Dock,…

At the beginning of the story, Psyche struggle with the lost of Eros. Eros got sick and tired of her not trusting him when he disobeyed his mother for her. “ That was the beginning of the road of trouble Psyche had to follow. She wandered day and night, without food or rest in search of Eros.” He thinks Psyche isn’t trustable, so she is struggling to win him back. Psyche tires to follow her love. In the middle of the story, Psyche preserve through the challenges given to her. Aphrodite had…

Love has many definitions, it can be seen as the deep, intense feeling of affection towards another individual, or it can be seen as having great interest in something whether it be a sport or any other activity. Love is the strongest emotion human possess, it causes people to do many irrational things, and it is the the only emotion in which almost every movie, play, or novel is about. In the Symposium love is described in many ways, heavenly and common, the search for one’s other half, the…

you’re talking about your favorite TV show. Even though we use the same word to describe the different levels of love the ancient Greeks was able distinguished four different words for love and each one has their own unique meaning: storge, philia, eros, and agape. The first type of love, storge, is the natural familial love. I believe we experience this type of love because it helps us connect with our immediate families and our immediate family are the people we meet first. When discussing…