... Love; if Love is not found they might be satisfied and go about their ways to the business of life. It is reasonably useful to understand from Aristophanes speech mans true motives. Man is always looking for his other destined half and this need perhaps more than purely physical. When one's half meets with one's other half, the pair becomes lost ... in an amazement of love, friendship and intimacy, and spends their whole lives together as destined. Our everlasting purpose is to understand Love, it's reincarnation and friendship with one another. At the beginning of our time, human natur...

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... return love, always embracing that which is akin to him." Aristophanes described that when one half met with his other half the pair became lost in an amazement of love, friendship and intimacy, and spent their whole lives together. Yet they could not explain what they desired of one another. He added that the intense yearning which each of them had ... asks to be taken seriously. He applied his anecdote to include men and women everywhere, and proposed that if mankind's love were perfectly accomplished, and each being found his original true love, that our race would be happy. If this ...

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... knowledge. In fact, Socrates was aware of his own ignorance, "I have no knowledge of the kind"(p.2), while others were not. Socrates questioned on the topics such as love, politics, war, friendship, poetry, religion, science and government. His important discussions were concerned with how one should live, with virtue and wisdom. In these discussions Socrates used an approach now known as Socratic ... , caused him to go to jail and then sentenced to death. Socrates claimed that he has benefited the Athenians by introducing them to his philosophical cross-examination. Although, that was t...

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... forms of love can pose an obstacle to human's achievement of happiness and fulfillment? There are many ways in which different kinds of love such as sexual love, romantic love, friendship love, love of god, ect can in turn pose as an obstacle for human's achievement of happiness and fulfillment. Firstly, if we take sexual love, Augustine believes that his desire ... primarily focused on commitment and emotional intimacy which takes longer to attain so is less amusing to the person in the beginning and therefore poses as an obstacle in achieving true happiness and fulfillment. To what ex...

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... of three periods; the early, middle or late periods. Plato also wrote some letters, but his dialogues are what made him great. His early dialogues such as Lysis, (a discussion of friendship), and Book I of the Republic (a discussion of justice) were dedicated solely to the memory of Socrates. His middle to late while still using Socrates in them reflected Plato's own philosophical ... never married, Plato's lived a very for filed life. His wisdom and knowledge on various subjects are still used today. He was convinced that knowledge is attainable and that still proves true today. We sti...

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... . Once this knowledge was put into "rules of practice", man was ready to take on the question of Theology (God and his role in our lives), Ethics (virtues, wisdom, and friendship), and Politics (the most authoritative and master art). For Aristotle, God was not just the Creator. He was duality, the beginning and the end. Aristotle felt that " the divine is ... Plato holding his hand upright as if to say, "Look towards the Perfect Heavens for truth" while Aristotle holds his arm straight implying, "Look around you to determine what is true". ...

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