Philosophy of love

Carlos E. Ruiz April 19, 2016 Philosophy 202 The Relation of Friendship and Virtue In Book VIII of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle says “After what we have said, a discussion of friendship would naturally follow, since it is a virtue or implies virtue, and is besides most necessary with a view to living.” Firstly, Aristotle is saying that friendship is a virtue and secondly, he is saying that friendship is a necessity. A virtue is the state of moral life or behavior that aims at…

have different interpretations of erotic love. Aristophanes and Alcibiades define erotic love as longing for another being which an individual is drawn to. Both these men yearn for love in the idea of another figure in their life. Alcibiades yearned for the Socrates, whereas Aristophanes yearned to find his “matching half” (Plato, pg. 19). Both want to achieve a sense of completeness in their lives, because of these yearning faults are seen in their idea of love. Both men cause disturbances…

The Fire and the Rain takes Karnad’s vision about the quest for completeness forward and exhibits him in serene hues as Shakespeare appears in his later work, The Tempest where a Miranda’s innocence is protected by Prospero throughout the play right from her encounter with Ferdinand. It moves in a circle around a central point of revenge, futility of knowledge and frugalness of human nature. Through this play Karnad tries to focus self-centered prevailing in the contemporary society by…

Hello ,thanks for your lovely letter,I should let you know that People come into our lives and walk with us a mile, and then because of circumstance they only stay a while. They serve a purpose within the days that move so quickly by and then are gone beyond our reach, we often wonder why. God only knows the reason that we meet and share a smile, why people come into our lives and walk with us a mile and i should tell you that i am a man that is ready to walk with you for eternity and not just a…

features, thoughts, interests, likes/dislikes, etc. To be fully human means embracing God as our creator, the main source of the human identity, and following the path of holiness that he has laid down for human beings. In Thomas Merton’s work of philosophy “The Inward Solitude,” written to a general audience, he lists the qualities of what he thinks it means to be human. Throughout this section of his text No Man is an Island, Merton describes how God is the source of creation and how human…

clerk (Audrey Hepburn) in a Greenwich Village philosophy bookstore. The photographer, who works for Quality magazine, convinces the chief editor, played by Kay Thompson, that this girl is the fresh face the publication needs to offer the public. Together they lure her to Paris, where she will be presented and will model an exclusive collection. Audrey Hepburn is, as usual, great in her role as the stubborn, romantic Jo. Jo is enamored with a philosophy called “empathicalism”, so she agrees to…

corrupting the youth and not believing in the gods of the city, and Euthyphro to prosecute his father for murder. Euthyphro was a religious prophet who claimed to possess great knowledge on what is holy. Contrastingly, Socrates was concerned with philosophy yielding practical results outside of the influence of theological doctrine and in the realm of human reason. He did not claim to possess excessive knowledge in a subject and rather believed that the more a person knows the greater their…

Happiness is interesting, as it could be described as both a feeling and a place. For some people happiness is doing what you love as long as you’re surrounded by people that you love. But for others happiness is more superficial and could simply be a mundane destination such as Maui, Hawaii. Both Susan Orleans and Eric Wiener in their books, My Kind of Place and The Geography of Bliss expose what it means to be happy and if happiness is found or achieved. These works are similar in that they…

response is one that happens without you telling yourself to. Lust is that physical response. When it comes to the attraction between two people, the very first primal reaction is lust, not love. Only with time can two people reach the state that is considered love. Lust is a term that is often mistaken for love simply because it is the spark, in some situations, that ignites the kindling that becomes the…

Keats' Philosophy of Life And Death A man who avoids death will never mature, and he will never profoundly understand and solve the problem of existence. In life, people inevitably encounter a variety of problems, the limited life and unlimited desires, the eternal desire to live with the inevitable death of the fate of the contradictions, etc., contained in the lives of everyone , Thus constituting the predicament of human existence. Life and death, as a phenomenon, reflects people's concern…