Philosophy of love

stories. Aristophanes and Socrates both tell stories about love, but both have very different meanings. Aristophanes, who is a comic playwright tells a story in which he talks about the myth of soulmates and love, and his meaning of love. Socrates then tells a story of his version of love, and what he believes it to be. Both Aristophanes and Socrates stories gives interesting ideas, in Aristophanes Male/Male pairing is favored, and with Socrates love is for an object, and to…

in their little love story. If you’ve read TFIOS or are somewhat familiar with the movie, you’re already well aware that Hazel’s romance is a total tearjerker. She struggles like any other person dragging through life (but with an added oxygen tank.)…

leg. The way that she perceive herself, relates to the story. Joy had a bright future ahead of her which should lead her to a joyful life. Joy has all that she needed to make her life bright. She was well educated as she wanted. Joy has a PhD in philosophy, which means that she has been doing a lot of heavy reading and writing for most of her school career. Thus with the name “Joy”, we would think that she would find happiness in what she does in her life. To find and pursue things that gave…

summary The book three is about Thomas Augustine’s self-condemnation of his youth at Carthage and he shows the reader that this was a low point in his relationship with God. Ch. 1 Thomas Augustine become a student at Carthage and he became in love with the idea of love so he constantly lust after women. This cause him to damage friendship and he becoming vanity, anger, and suspicion. Ch. 2 Augustine go and see a pagan theater shows that mirrors his plight. Augustine talks about how he loved…

Naturalism in her book, the title has a sense of Naturalism. To sum it up I believe Cather uses Naturalism as her life philosophy in her book O’ Pioneers!. However, O’ Pioneers! has the Naturalistic view the title of the book has a romantic view. The Title of the book has the same title as a romantic poem that talks about pioneers. “O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all” (Whitman). The book romanticizes about the life in the frontier and the book makes romanticizes the life of…

and Heloise The letters of Abelard and Heloise describes the story of a love not meant to be for their time due to the ideas and morality of the religion. The tragedy is presented by an exchange of letters between Abelard and Heloise starting when Heloise receives by mistake a letter that was not meant to fall in her hands. The letters describe the struggles of two lovers during medieval times. Heloise and Abelard fall in love during Abelard’s teachings and their sexual encounters without being…

pieces which were highly evaluated. During their life Raphael found the question of life intriguing, and wished to come up with something that could depict his idea of life. Through time he came up with "The four branches of knowledge" which were philosophy,theology, poetry, and jurisprudence and he painted them. Raphael also had a strong passion for painting women, he believed that in order to paint beauty , he must see many. His idea of beauty mostly revolved around women's breast, "La…

goddesses who made love with each other’s family members, parents and children to the modern-day cases of fathers forcing their daughters to procreate for them that disturb and intrigue the public mind. In the case of romantic love between parents and children, “Little C” by Martha C. Nussbaum suggests that, disturbingly, the difference between romantic and parental love is tenuous at best, and easily corruptible. The idealized selfless love that is often seen as the epitome of romantic love…

In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont’s Beauty and a Beast, both Jane and Beauty face the challenges of looking beyond the superficial to find true love, respectively. In Beauty and a Beast, Jeanne-Marie authors minimal conversation between the Beast and Beauty throughout the story. In doing so, the Beast is characterized with low intellect: a “monster”, “terrible”, and “ugly.” Conversely, Beaumont characterizes Beauty as “extremely handsome,” “better than…

In the poem, Love’s Philosophy, Percy Bysshe Shelley suggests through imagery, personification, speech act, and the structure of the poem that love completes meaning of life since everything in nature pairs, and that without love, everything is in vain. Shelley uses nature to demonstrate the complementary pairings. “The fountains mingle with the river/ And the rivers with the ocean” connect these flowing substances together. Without one of them, there will be a gap, a lay of land separating the…