Philosophy of love

therefore, appears to be a hereditary depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul” (Mcneil 10). Calvin states since the fall, man is born in a state of rebellion not in a blank state or neutral. The next area of philosophy to compare John Calvin to Plato and Aristotle is on their view on the soul. John Calvin has a purely theological assessment on the soul. Calvin starts off his assertion on this subject by going to the biblical account of original sin,…

Analysis of Plato’s Dialogue: Meno and Phaedo Introduction Plato wrote almost thirty dialogue, and Socrates is the major character in most of them. Platonic dialogue is a genre involving other texts such as Xenophon’s hiero and Plato’s law, in which Socrates, a wise man leads the dialogues those against each dialogues is Socrates who attempt to find out more about the understanding of other person concerning moral issues Meno In this Plato’s dialogue, the Socrates is faced with some very…

in society and its influence on crime interests me immensely; from the size of cones on a motorway to buying a coffee, everything involves some aspect of the law. My interest in Law stemmed from the debated link between law and philosophy. Through studying A-Level Philosophy I have been able to explore philosophical ideas such as morality and their link to law and crime. Such as the idea of 'Rule Utilitarianism' and how our society functions on its basic ideologies. Each law is based on the…

Aristotle was a synoptic thinker with an over-arching theory that tied together all aspects and fields of philosophy. He elaborates a logic that is designed to describe what exists in the world. Ancient commentators regarded logic as a widely applicable method for careful thinking. They grouped Aristotles six logical treatises into a sort of manual they called…

I love knowing this because, with an open-mind you can learn and construct different ideas from the different perspectives. No one (or at least I assume) has one philosophical position on any issue that is questioned. Be that as it may, most axiological views…

Blaise Pascal Pascal's Wager is an argument in philosophy presented by the seventeenth-century French philosopher. He thinks that people are betting on their lives that God exists or not. In Pascal’s view, he argues that a person should live as if God exists and believe in God. If in reality the God does not exist, they still can get the profits in their life. He also developed the theory of modern probability, and believed the reason cannot prove or not prove the existence of God.…

The setting of Plato’s Euthyphro took place with a discussion between Socrates and Euthyphro which concerned the definition of Piety. This was an interest to Socrates for which he was being charged for impiety and facing a trail at the Athenian court to determine his innocence for the crimes he was accused for. Socrates wasn’t sure if the Athenian people actually knew what piety and impiety was. For this reason, Socrates asked Euthyphro “What is piety?” Euthyphro is arrogant and so his…

universal “right and wrong”. Rightness and wrongness are the two major part of the philosophy and it goes hand-on-hand because someone’s happiness may affect others sadness. Ethics try to look for pleasure without pain. “Pleasure and Pain”, gender based decision, ethical argument, and culture pays vital role in our society. Pleasure, pain, gender, ethical arguments and culture relative are the key factors of ethical philosophy. There are many actions that can be right ethically but that may not…

Socrates' credo “An unexamined life is not worth living” sparks an intense and prolific discussion, just as Socrates intended. In the discussion of this credo, the thinker does just what the credo addresses: without studying, analyzing, or critically reflecting upon one's life, it is not worth living. Life is not about making all the right decisions in a progression to the idealized or perfect life. It is rather a procession to honor the experiences one is a part of or engages in, one's own…

speeches in “Phaedrus” the first regarding love and its negative effects as a means of refuting Lysias’s claims about love. Socrates discusses love as a form of madness and how it forces people to lose morality and control. He seems to be drawing on his own opinions that he has formed from the polis. He is convinced that love is a terrible thing and that it causes more harm than good. However, in his second speech, known as “The Great Speech”, he discusses love as eros and that there are four…