Ethics:Romantic Love
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| What are the two kinds of love, according to Pausanias? | noble and common/vulgar love
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| What do vulgar lovers care most about according to Pausanias? | the body more than the soul.
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| 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.
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| What, according to Agathon, is the problem with the speeches that preceded his? | didn't celebrate the God's gifts
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| What is Diotima's definition of love? | wanting to possess the good forever.
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| According to Diotima, where does love being & end? | The form of beauty
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| Why does Alcibiades say that his life is one constant effort to escape from Socrates? | He makes him feel shame.
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| 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.
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| 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)
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| 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.
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| According to Fromm, what are the two kinds of love? | symbiotic union/immature love & mature love.
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| According to Schopenhauer, all love is rooted in what? | sexual impulse
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| Schopenhauer claims that the essence of love is not its reciprocation, what is it instead? | its possession (physical enjoyment)/reproduction
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| 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)
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