Symposium

Symposium Plato’s 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…

believe there should be no restrictions on guns, whatsoever. There is also an opinion in the middle of these two stances; some think by combining the two opposite beliefs and collaborating their ideas, a fair resolution could be made. In the article “Symposium of Guns in America”, James Lindgren discusses the history behind the Second Amendment and gun control in America. Lindgren declares that he believes in the Second Amendment, but also thinks there should be some form of gun control along…

It is not a secret that Ancient greek society was a patriarchal one. Women lived exceedingly suppressed lives by either their father or by their husband. Ancient greek women were not allowed in social gatherings in fear that their natural instinct would be to seduce men, with the exception of certain social gatherings such as a funeral. A respectable woman’s role was to stay chaste until marriage, stay at home and run the daily household, weave, and bare legitimate children. Her life was always…

The Symposium has conserved information about the author, Plato, as long as the highly influential aspects Plato uses for his writings, and the historical background of his pieces. Plato was born in 429 B.C.E in Athens. He used political events and intellectual movements of the time, but the questions he created and the strategies he used to take on those ideas made educated readers of nearly every period have in some way been influenced by him. Plato used many techniques while creating his…

I attended the annual Caritas Veritas Symposium on September 27, 2016. The majority of the lectures that I attended were about the good life, but the one that really impacted me was “The good Life? Reflections on being Undocumented.” This lecture was given in the atrium at 10 a.m. The main point that I got from this lecture was what it really means to be an undocumented person in a foreign country. The three people who participated in the lectures were all Dominican students; two of them had…

Superior “Love” In the Symposium, eros is considered as the love between boys and men, while the true friendship is wishing for the well-being of others in the Nicomachean Ethics and the compassion is a strong feeling to sharing the pain of the whole world in The Heart of Understanding. Considering love to be a strong feeling of affection, eros, the true friendship and compassion can all be described as “love”. Love can be explored from 3 dimensions, the reason for love, the form of expression…

This extra credit paper is on my Presentation of The Comity Agreement at The Undergraduate Symposium held at Rasmusen Hall, hosted by Maria Williams on November 18, 2016. Professor Maria Williams taught Alaska Native Perspectives A206 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 pm until 5:15 pm. She spoke of many subjects that pertain to the history of Alaska and the impacts of colonial contact. These impacts included: Segregation, Conversion to Christianity, Statehood in 1959, and Alaska Native Claims…

Five Dialogues & Symposium: Socrates’ Search for Knowledge In Five Dialogues and Symposium by Plato, Socrates the Ancient Greek philosopher challenges his fellow men about the notion that they do not posses knowledge. The role of a philosopher is to reflect on life and ask existential questions because curiosity is innate in all humans. In Apology, Socrates expresses to the jury and judges at his trial, “they have been proved to lay claim to knowledge when they know nothing” (Apology, 23d).…

Today, artistic activism from social movements, political networks and also the art field itself is hardly imaginable. The symposium From Social Sculpture to Art related Action deals with the history of socially committed art, what has changed from the term “social sculpture” by Joseph Beuys in the 1970’s and how the concept developed in an international context. Joseph Beuys had the need to get a deep understanding of the human being and his connection with the universe. He also believes…

ancient times and Plato’s Symposium is one text that deals with the problem of defining love. In Plato’s “Symposium”, seven Greek philosophers take turns debating the meaning of love at a dinner party. Each philosopher has a different point of view and opinion of what love is and why we desire love. This text is extremely influential still to this very day, as it raises important questions about love that are significant to modern readers (Gill, 1999). Although “The Symposium” is considered an…