Immortality of Plato's Love Though Plato died nearly 2500 years ago, the English language still keeps his definition of love in common usage. ... Plato would respond that intellectual association leads to the creation of timeless ideas, and is therefore a greater love than the physical love which creates children. Plato explores and defends his view of love in the Symposium, specifically in the dialogue between Socrates and Diotima (Symposium, 204e ­ 209e). Plato first defines love by examining the lover, then uses this definition to build an abstract function and purpose of love whi...

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Plato was, as we know, both pupil of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. ... Plato's five greatest and most well known writings are, The Apology, Phaedo, Crito, The Republic, and Symposium. ... Symposium is about the function and purpose of love. The Republic is about Plato's ideal form of a republic. ... The war demolished the Academy that plato founded. ...

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(Symposium, 37)" Love inspires people to do great things, and is the greatest source of pleasure there is. ... This is why the Symposium is considered one of the great works of philosophy, even though Socrates is the only real philosopher in the group. ... The people in Plato's Symposium are truly great and wise men. ... (Symposium, 20)" The moral value of this sentence is questionable. ... Pausanias does, however, say, "But the love of young boys should be forbidden by law because their future is uncertain (Symposium, 23)." ...

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In reading Horace's Satires and Epistles and Plato The Symposium, a very ironic discovery can be made. ... He does not put himself on a heavenly level, like Diotima in Plato's Symposium, but guarantees his readers that although he has knowledge of how to live a satisfying life and can administer advice on it; he too struggles against his damning nature. Plato's Symposium is a collection of speeches, made by a group of social degenerates about love. ... Socrates speaks through Diotima on the four stairs of love. The first step is to love one beautiful body; entirely physical...

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In this paper I will discuss Aristophanes" speech on love found in Plato's Symposium. ... I will also explain Aristophanes" definition of love, and whether or not love is an admirable or good thing. ... In order to explain how this story might shed some light on Aristophanes idea of love, and what he believes are the characteristics of love; we must first acknowledge the difference between physical sexual love, and a deeper spiritual love that emanates from the soul. ... Love, according to Aristophanes, is also the key to our success as a human race "there's just one way for the huma...

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Comparing Capote's works to that of Plato and Phaedrus, one author states: Baldanza describes their works as "parables on the nature of love", and adds, "They share with Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus in particular that curious tone of purely and absolutely spiritual love which grows out of a diffused and circumambient atmosphere of sexuality that never clearly manifests itself." ...

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