Plato

In today’s society, technology has definitely made its way into being a major part of the entire world. As a result, we are accustomed to new technology being introduced into our lives. To us, this means that we will receive better and new benefits. However, have we taken a step back to see if all these advancements are actually a threat to us? A man named Neil Postman suggests otherwise. In “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology”, written by…...

"His head and his heart was drunk, and his steps followed the dictates of that dark god whose pleasure it is to trample man's reason and dignity underfoot" (Mann 244). It is interesting to note that the origin of the cholera, which ultimately kills Aschenbach, is India, the land from where Diosysus hails. In Aschenbach's dream he envisions the " 'the stranger-god,' the enemy of the composed and dignified intellect" (Mann 256). This dream links Archenbach's dissention into desire with…...

The concept of love in Plato's "Symposium", told by Eros. The Accounts of Eros in the "Symposium" The word love carries with it many, many different interpretations. In modern day, our views on what is appropriate love is much different from the views from the time of Socrates and Plato. To them love was eros, a direct translation of the word love. However, the word itself wasn't the only thing that was different about love. In Plato's "Symposium", there is…...

PROLOGUE: This started with the introduction of a character, a man namely, Apollodorus of Phalerum. While traveling in a city, Apollodorus encountered an unnamed acquaintance and asked him about the famous story of a drinking party called the "Symposium". This party involves Socrates and his other followers. Although Apollodorus did not really attended the said event, he agrees on telling his companion the happenings and the interaction that happened in the event via the stories told to him by Aristodemus,…...

In the Symposium, which is normally dated at the beginning of the middle duration, Plato presents his theory of love. First thing to note is that in Plato's theory, love is provided and its existence is not questioned. The word love leaves the matter uncertain as to whether we are discussing love in the regular, human, sense of the word, or if we are talking about desire in a much broader sense, however in this conversation we are just thinking…...

Of all the dialogues of Plato, this has got to be one of the most impressive of all. A display of conversations that did not rely on just mediocre questioning and explanation about a single topic. Walking around the country and providing conversations on just about whatever happens to them, the Phaedrus and Socrates walking conversation displays relevant matters and enlightening words. Tackling the topic of love was the initial subject that the two had taken into consideration. Talking about…...

Persuasion from ethos establishes the speaker's or writer's good character. As you saw in the opening of Plato's Phaedrus, the Greeks established a sense of ethos by a family's reputation in the community. Our current culture in many ways denies us the use of family ethos as sons and daughters must move out of the community to find jobs or parents feel they must sell the family home to join a retirement community apart from the community of their lives'…...