ESSAY ON: The Nature of Love in Human Nature: Insight from Plato and Aristotle

Number of Pages 5

This research paper: A 5 page overview of the philosophy of love and friendship as clarified in Plato’s Symposium and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Plato views the concept of love as a progression from earthly love and the attractions of the flesh, the transitory physical beauties of the intellect, to a state in which an individual contemplates such concepts a beauty, goodness, and spirituality, concepts grouped by Plato as the eternal beauty. Aristotle equates love with friendship in which the interests of a friend take paramount importance even to one’s own interest. Bibliography lists 3 sources.


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