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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Background of the Study Most people say love is a gift something beautiful from God. Love is a symbol about the feeling each individual. Deal with their couple‚ deal with their family‚ their children‚ and their friend. In the most stories‚ a man who falls in love with a woman will sacrifice everything he can‚ also with a woman‚ when a woman falls in love with a man will sacrifice everything she can. Not only about relationship between woman and man need sacrifice for a love‚ but also in family’s relationship
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such thing as "true love" they believe that love is nothing but an illusion designed by social expectations. These people believe that love ultimately turns into pain and despair. This idea in some ways is true. Love is not eternal it will come to an end one way or another‚ but the aspect that separates true love from illusion‚ is the way love ends. "True Love" is much too powerful to be destroyed by Human imperfection; it may only be destroyed by a force equal to the power of love. Diotima believed
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INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION AND LOVE: Attraction is what makes us choose to interact with some people and not others. Many factors influence this attraction. Examples are: i. Propinquity: This is geographical closeness. People tend to be attracted to people they know well and interact with often. The propinquity effect is the finding that the more we see and interact with people; the more likely they are to be our friend and potential partners. ii. Similarity and Homogamy: while propinquity
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For readers familiar with Love in the Time of Cholera‚ the themes of love and death would be constantly visited and revisited again by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in his novel‚ with a tad of heavy reliance on the cholera pandemic (as the title suggests not so subtly) and going so far as to intertwine them into a single notion (more often than not) throughout. Such a combination (and comparison) is most visible in Florentino‚ and helps shapes our emotions and thoughts about him as a character. Yet‚ in
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True Love From a simple mixture of sexual attraction and attachment to a manifestation of the human soul‚ feelings of fierce romantic desire boast no shortage of theories explaining their origin and meaning. Love is as much a mystery as it is familiar‚ highlighting a lack of insight into the human psyche. As man attempts to unravel the endless enigmas behind this apparently paradoxical emotion‚ more and more questions seem to arise. What is love ’s true purpose? Why does it begin? How are loved
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Paper December 18‚ 2012 What Is Love? Throughout the years‚ many philosophers have studied the nature of love‚ and have come up with many different definitions and theories. Although love is something that plays a huge role in the lives of almost everyone‚ some philosophers have simply given up on their studies‚ or felt it just wasn’t very meaningful to study at all‚ and decided to leave it in “the realm of the ineffable.” Although the question‚ “What Is love?” has still never been exactly defined
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The Science of Love • There are three phases to falling in love and different hormones are involved at each stage. • Events occurring in the brain when we are in love have similarities with mental illness. • When we are attracted to somebody‚ it could be because subconsciously we like their genes. • Smell could be as important as looks when it comes to the fanciability factor. We like the look and smell of people who are most like our parents. • Science can help determine whether a relationship
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There are several different styles of love‚ many of which people go through before they actually may reach a point of commitment. Some people never reach the point of commitment and continue through their life in cycles of different love styles. Here are a couple of different scenarios that show different styles of love: Mary and John are in college together‚ but they have known each other for several years now. They have always turned to each other when their relationships go bad. But recently
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Dear Reader‚ If we base our idea of what true love is on fairy tales‚ we might think that finding prince charming or an enchanting princess and living happily ever after is the ultimate goal. But for most mortals‚ striving for such ideals is unrealistic‚ and may even leave us feeling unfulfilled or let down. The reality is that being and staying in love takes continual work and patience‚ even though this might not seem utterly romantic‚ in that storybook sense. Couples who have healthy relationships
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