Importance of Platonic love Essay

There is a structure in love where everything and everyone has a similarity, a cookie-ness. This cookie-ness could be as simple as everyone being male, female, loving men or women, and so on. In Plato’s Symposium, we learn about the uniqueness of love, the beauty inside and out, and the relationships between younger men and older men. Most importantly, we learn that Socrates is different. He doesn’t play by the rules of the ‘beauty ladder’. This essay will look at the lack of cookie-ness of…

Plato's Symposium focuses on a group of intellectual men each giving a speech in praise of the god of love. Taking turns each man gives his definition of love and some of the speeches concern themselves with how love interacts with nature. One of the more influential speeches was given by Socrates in the narrative of a woman named Diotima. This speech is more focused on a definition of love, one different from what most people consider, and how it can be used to reach immortality, an ascent to…

Symposium is a philosophical text about the true nature and purpose of love in 4th century BCE society. Love is analyzed from the perspective of several men at a symposium, and then restated by Plato in his own words and perspective. The symposium consisted of diverse theories of love, which were mostly homosexual between two men, imitating commonality in Greece at this time. Pausanias, one of the attendees of the symposium, argues that love in itself is neither good nor bad, but defined simply…

Rielynn is a good friend. She knows how to make someone's day five times better, she always has a smile on her face, and she also knows how to put a smile on other people's faces. Everyday, she is always working hard on running, art, etc. She always is smiling and is in a positive mood. Rielynn is a very consistent runner. She has the determination to get out there and race the best she can race. She may be in pain but with her determination she never gives up. She is one of those friends where…

individual wants. A love that rise after Beowulf is pragma. Similar to agape, this love in unconventional compared to others. This form of love is when affection grows stronger over time. By definition, pragma is defined as "realistic and practical love that is not based on intense physical attraction but emphasizes the conscious search for a compatible partner" (Zeng). The love that requires the individual to wait for the right moment. It can also be interpreted as the love that grows over time…

Jason Klarwein has directed the theatrical masterpiece ‘Much Ado about Nothing’. Klarwein says this play is a beautifully controlled sensual look at love and lust. What people will do to get it and what people will do to avoid it”. The play revolves around romantic love and lust however it also explores the love found within the confines of friendship which is a more powerful and driving force in the play. Tama Matheson and Patrick Dwyer exhibit precise and deliberate control their movements to…

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful” (Plato). Philosophers know that what their citizens truly want is peace and harmony. They want to live happily with the ones that they love. If everybody is forced by violence to do certain things, agency is lost, and thus the pursuit of happiness. “A government concerned for the happiness of its citizens need…

through the use of: Love, Gender Roles and one's Family influence. Relationships are portrayed in multiple ways throughout each of the texts, whether it’s romantical, friendships or familial. ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ presents mainly romantic relationships as it is a key part of the play and links with the characters identities. Whereas ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ portrays platonic love and affection that characters have for one another. Both writers present…

in society. He argues, “Race has been almost as powerful a catalyst to the creation of monsters as culture, gender, and sexuality.” (Cohen 10). Cohen frequently refers to culture, gender, sexuality, and race throughout his essay to emphasize the importance of those four classifications in society. Furthermore, Cohen states, “The monster often arises to enforce … the decrees against interracial sexual mingling.” (Cohen 15). Here, Cohen argues that sexual mingling between races is prohibited to…

things, ostensibly love and erotic love, however the dialogue also discusses rhetoric itself and the ways in which it is and should be practiced, as well as subjects such as metempsychosis. The dialogue in Phaedrus does not allow for other interlocutors to introduce the story, or a retelling of events preceding the scene. This is somewhat unusual as it comes as a first-hand unmediated dialogue, and plays out almost as if we are witnessing the events ourselves. Socrates’ speeches on love display…