Question | Answer |
What are the two kinds of love, according to Pausanias? | noble and common/vulgar love |
What do vulgar lovers care most about according to Pausanias? | the body more than the soul. |
What does Aristophanes say that love is? | love is the pursuit to find our other half similar to our idea of a soulmate. theres only one other person out there for us. |
What, according to Agathon, is the problem with the speeches that preceded his? | didn't celebrate the God's gifts |
What is Socrates' main criticism of Agathon's claim that love is the most beautiful God? | that love is the desire for good/beautiful. to desire that something is to lack that something; therefore love can be neither beautiful nor good. |
What, according to Diotima, was Socrates' most basic mistake in his thinking about the nature of love? | that love was primarily about being loved rather than being the lover. |
What is Diotima's criticism of those who think that "lovers are those people who seek their other halves"? | people seek their other half only if it is good. |
What is Diotima's definition of love? | wanting to possess the good forever. |
According to Diotima, where does love being & end? | The form of beauty |
Why does Alcibiades say that his life is one constant effort to escape from Socrates? | He makes him feel shame. |
When Fromm calls love an art, what idea about the nature of love is he rejecting? | that it is a feeling, that it is something we can not control. |
Fromm says that the 'history of religion and philosophy is the history of these answers" -- answers to what? | how to overcome separateness, achieve union, transcend one's individual life & find one-moment (orgiastic states, conformity w/ group, creative activity) |
Why does Fromm suggest that people are often attracted to "orgiastic states" | the world oustside disappears. when they dont do them, they feel worse. common practice in a tribe which contributes to conformity with union. |
According to Fromm, what are the two kinds of love? | symbiotic union/immature love & mature love. |
According to Schopenhauer, all love is rooted in what? | sexual impulse |
Schopenhauer claims that the essence of love is not its reciprocation, what is it instead? | its possession (physical enjoyment)/reproduction |
What explains why 2 people are attracted to one another, according to Schopenhauer | 1. the most beautiful 2. will love the perfections the person has that you lack & imperfections that are opposite of yours. (instinct/illusion) |