Platonic love

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 beauty…

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…

The Truth of Grecian Love According to its most simple definition, love is described as a strong attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion to someone or something. Since the ancient Grecian times, the meaning of love has testified to these words. Ancient text such as Plato’s Symposium explain these ideas about love and prove these to humans that have been questioning love since the beginning of time. Plato’s Symposium is a compilation of speeches made at a party at the Greek poet, Agathon’s house…

characters give grand speeches about love, some giving accounts of love while others praise it. At this event, Socrates gives an account of love that once was told to him by the philosopher Diotima. She believed that the origin of love is the inherent human desire for immortality. However, Diotima’s account is inaccurate, and the true origin of love is the human desire for the company of other humans. According to Diotima’s account of love, the origin of love is a desire for immortality. She…

Greeks thought love was extremely important, but also hurtful, deadly, and destructive. The Greeks treat the love myths in a way that is different from most of our modern-day ideas of love. In the love stories, love is described as a force which ends in a tragic tale of death. Also, many stories of unrequited love that ends in sadness when address their love to the objects they fall in love with. The stories of “Pygmalion and Galatea”, “Narcissus” and “Endymion” all suggest that selfish love…

The Symposium is a dialog by Plato that depicts a drinking party that Socrates attended where the subject of love and what it really is was discussed. All the people who attended took turns giving speeches of what they thought about love and what its meaning really is. The first one to speak was Phaedrus who is known as the beloved and his speech details how he thinks love instills in us a feeling of being virtuous and honorable. This in turn makes us happy and good men following the path of…

house, and they are able to travel around the world without any financial worries. As for me, I believe that money can buy happy stuff, but it doesn’t buy the happiness itself. Happiness in my own view is when a person has real lover who gives true love, joyful time to spend with family and friends, and true friend who always there for his friend’s back. Money…

In Plato’s Symposium, Diotima, known to have bestowed her knowledge of love on Socrates, explains the levels of beauty one passes in order to achieve virtue. This transition as explained, begins with what she refers to as pregnancy and birth (206C). Desire, love, and beauty, results of the immortal process of reproduction that is inherent in all humans. The desire for, and the love of, launch the discovery of beauty itself. The phrase inner beauty is not just a figure of speech, it is…

Symposium by Plato is a story which discusses the different types of love and how each type of man present in the story views love. Men give speeches, discussing the different types of love, the love of men being of the heavens, and love of women being of the earth. However, when analyzing the pieces, it becomes clear that there is more meaning to the writing than simply the existence of an earthly and a heavenly love. Rather, Plato wishes to convey a deeper, societal message in his writing. The…

Do what you cherish yet adore what you do. In the article "In the Name of Love" by Miya Tokumitsu, doing what you adore that is recommended by Edmunson is challenged to have a darker implying that turns whatever is left of the common laborers imperceptible to others. Author Miya Tokumitsu discusses how the general population who set out to get paid for what they want to do are devaluating the workers, who don't precisely adore what they do. Miya Tokumitsu holds a doctorate in craftsmanship…