Importance of Platonic love Essay

In today’s society, most of the relationships presented in books, movies, TV shows, and other media are romantic in nature. However, “This Is Not a Love Song” by Brendan Mathews veers away from that normal occurrence. Although some of the relationships that are presented in the story are romantic, the main focus is on the constant friendship between the narrator and Kat, the subject of her many photographs. Mathews uses a unique and interesting sort of snapshot vignette style of writing that includes very specific and intentionally placed details, similar to the ideas presented in “The Writer’s Goal” by Guy de Maupassant. Maupassant’s ideas focus on using different literary techniques to show the reader exactly what the writer is trying to…

This essay is called an essay because it's entirely too long, too wordy, and too explanatory to be anything else. This essay is where I get close with you, where I tell you stories and truths about myself likely no one else knows, or at least pities me enough to pretend not to. I'm one of those people who acts cool and collected and superior to everyone else, but in reality I fall in love faster than I can breathe and I make assumptions and my soul is crushed because I hear a man I'm in love…

about love, but it returns to the traditional question/answer method of dialogue that Plato and Socrates are so fond of. The two pieces, when read separately, offer competing views of love, and its role in life and society, but when I read them together I came up with an entirely different interpretation. In both the Symposium and the Phaedrus, Eros serves only as a platform to discuss the value and importance of leading a life of philosophy. Platonic love begins with the Symposium, wherein a…

Mothers ' Love This is the story of three friends who lived in a beautiful kingdom not of this world. In this heavenly realm were glorious gardens of fragrant flowers, strong trees and singing brooks. There were many children who spent their days running and playing together in the garden. The Keeper of The Garden, also known as Father, knew all of his children who lived there. On day he came to the three friends while they were playing happily together. He called each of them by name and…

had – a love so innocent no beauty could compare to thee. How may I remind of the choices we made to defy? We created a new friendship that began to sway into a romance that is nothing more than an attraction of beauty. How may we then save this friendship from devolving into a memory of times that stood bright and strong? By remembering what used to be and creating a new destiny – one that will not result in the death of us. The Fear What is there to fear when God is with…

Plato Symposium and Sappho, Selected Poems discuss the topic of love as experienced by a select few of society- and thus reject the notion that love is a universal human experience. Through this essay, love will be examined as it pertains to each text and then these ideas will be observed to understand how they reject the notion that love is a universal human experience. Set in ancient Greece, Plato’s work titled Symposium presents his view that love can only be experienced by men and boys…

Plato’s Symposium offers various views on where love can be found in the mind, the body, and the soul. Aphrodite shows how desire fogs the mind, keeping Sappho from seeing one’s true beauty. In Sappho’s Ode to Aphrodite, beauty is where desire remains satisfactory for one as opposed to Plato’s Symposium, where desire leads to an understanding of true beauty, the beauty of the body, the mind, and the soul. The concept of love presented by Diatoma is able to reach the true understanding of…

Len Wein once said, “A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.” A True friendship is where 2 people have a special bond with each other and are loyal, kind, respectful, and love one another. SpongeBob and Patrick from SpongeBob Squarepants have all the good qualities you need in order to have a true friendship. They remain loyal to one another by sticking by each other’s side no matter the problem. In the SpongeBob Squarepants movie SpongeBob had to…

What is addiction? How does one become addicted? What causes us to become addicted? These unanswered questions and nearly hundreds of others have prompted the scientific and psychological communities to allocate a great amount of time, money, and research into unlocking the inside workings of addiction. Though we have compiled enormous amounts of data and experimental research regarding this terrible state of being, some of these questions are still left unanswered. Johann Hari, a Swiss-British…

development of philosophy. He is major influence was his teacher, Socrates, who impressed in him that ‘love of wisdom’ and He passed that onto his own student, Aristotle. Some of Plato’s marvelous works are: Phaedrus, The Symposium and The Allegory of the Cave and the themes depicted in them are freedom (philosophical education), madness (in love and in life), love and beauty ( in all the aspects of our lives.) Now, I’ll go on into a deep analysis of Plato’s works previously mentioned, I’ll…