Essays Tagged: "Symposium (Plato)"

platonic love

The Platonic Concept of Love: The Symposiumby Dr. David NauglePondus meum amor meus; eo feror quocumque feror. St. Augustine, Confessi ... human striving, resulting,naturally, in the need to examine and discuss it carefully. Plato™s Symposium isone such example.1 The venerable author in this ancient treatise records thespeeches of ... variety of myths and motifs about the nature and function of love (eros).1 Most commentators on the Symposium agree that its subject matter is love. John Brentlinger believes that by giving an account ...

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Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet