Platonic Love In the Symposium‚ which is normally dated at the beginning of the middle period‚ Plato introduces his theory of love. First thing to note is that in Plato’s theory‚ love is given and its existence is not questioned. The word love leaves the matter ambiguous as to whether we are discussing love in the normal‚ human‚ sense of the word‚ or if we are discussing desire in a much broader sense‚ but in this discussion we are only considering only love of type eros‚ love as a kind
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Definition Essay On Love – How Do You Define The Emotion Of Love? Sunday‚ October 18th‚ 2009 A definition essay on love strives to define it as an emotion felt and displayed by humans‚ animals‚ and all living beings in their own way. It is a topic that has been written about through the ages and has found its way into books on literature and religion. Love knows no bounds and language is never a barrier. Wars have been fought over it. People have been and are still influenced by the emotion of
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can be a state of being connected by blood or marriage – the emotional closeness of familial love; the way in which two or more people or groups regard and behave towards each other – the platonic love that defines friendship‚ the profound oneness or devotion of religious love; or‚ an emotional and sexual association between two people – the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love or the sexual love of Eros. Somehow‚ these relationships involve
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Kala Vinson 655486 English Essay 3 1 Love‚ What is it? What is Love? Everyone has felt it at one time maybe for a person or something they truly cherish. Love is felt in different ways. “Some people look for what seem their whole lifetimes for love‚ where others may seem to fall in and out of love on a regular basis”. Here we are talking about people. We can love many things‚ but the love between two people is unique and remarkable. Love is a unique feeling of respect‚ and devotion
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What ruins Love? Everyone knows that love is hard to come by but what they don’t know is how to handle it when it does come by. Many things in life can destroy a happy marriage or the perfect relationship. Relationships are not pitch perfect as they show in movies. To be in relationship it is essential to take a responsibility to stick with it when things go wrong. Dishonesty‚ long distance‚ mistrust‚ misunderstandings‚ difference in priorities‚ circumstances etc. there are endless reasons that
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LOVE ESSAY What is Love? I remembered in elementary this part of in a slum-book and each of my classmates have one and I need to answer all of the pesky slum-book. Many people see Love in different ways. From puppy Love to a strong relationship that lasts till lifetime. And as we grow older‚ our view eventually grows deeper and more mature. We will not be even here if not because of Love by our family. There is also Love that we have for GOD and for our friends. Each of this is controlled‚ if
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Love is defined as a profoundly tender‚ passionate affection for another person. For some people‚ love is complete devotion and endless adoration. For others is a temporary feeling that will disappear in time. For some people‚ it is a fairy-tale‚ while for others it is a dream come true. Some people say love is once-in-a lifetime and others think that after one love ends‚ another comes. The more one tries to find a universal definition of love‚ the more one can get confused with all the meanings
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Love For some people love is a complete devotion and endless adoration‚ for others is a temporary feeling that will disappear in time. For some people it is a fairy-tale and for others it is a dream come true. Some people say love is once-in-a lifetime thing and others believe that after one love comes another. The more you think about what love is the more you get closer to the true meaning of this feeling- the more you realize that the definition of love is probably your own‚ unique and sincere
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Love by definition is an emotion explored in philosophy‚ religion‚ and literature‚ often as either romantic love‚ the fraternal love of others‚ or the love of God based on the definition found in The Encarta Encyclopedia. As I explored the definition by means of the Internet‚ books‚ and articles I noticed the definitions changed quite a bit‚ but yet had the same basic understanding. The definition I found in The Encarta Encyclopedia was probably the most simple and most basic. It refers to love
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Love: Such an Easy Game to Play Jim Morrison‚ lead singer of The Doors‚ explains his idea of love by claiming‚ “Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself—and especially to feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to—letting a person be what he really is.” Love has many definitions‚ as it means something different to each person and in each circumstance in which it applies. Aside
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