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The Aristophanes' Ideology: Creation Through Separation
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What is love? Where does it come from? These are just a couple of questions that Plato's Symposium attempts to answer. The Symposium is an account of the banquet given by a young poet Agathon, which was recollected and told by Apollodprus. .... Middle of Term Paper
... trying to explain that the soul has other longings for which it cannot express, but can only surmise and attempt search for. This is the looking for our "matching half."
""Love" is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our
desire to be complete."
(Symposium, Speech of Aristophanes (192E)))
This is according to Aristophanes. His ides, or rather theory of "wholeness" is truly one of, if not the most, original and convincing of answering the complex question of: what is love? Aristophanes, argues that love is simply the name for the desire of pursuit of the whole. Aristophanes could not have been any closer to answering the questio ... |
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