Diotima teaches Socrates that the lover of good things wants to possess them so that he might be happy (204e). This definition of a lover applies to everyone, for Diotima's assumption, supported by Socrates, is that "everyone wants good things to be his own forever." (205a) There is a need to refine this broad definition which would include as lovers those who try to attain the good by any means. ... Heterosexual relations and the child a woman bears as a result of them are a beautiful end of love because they perpetuate man. ... Diotima says that men who try to gain the immortality they ...

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On a broader social scale, I realized that they are both exploring areas of love that perhaps have previously been poorly explained or illustrated: a constant roller-coaster of love described by the troubadour Ventadorn, and the struggle for measure and balance between two of Abelard's affections. ... He is using his disastrous story as an example of how bad things have become for him, in an attempt to make his friend feel more comfortable in their situation, or at least Abelard wanted to make his friend pity his condition. Abelard's Historia Calamitatum develops Abelard as a man wit...

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Nature actively combines, mingles, and unifies, whatever things we take for granted as physically separate and individual. ... He asks of this due to the union of their blood representing that they were "almost" married, which was swiftly altered to "more than" married. This concept of marriage transforms the flea into a temple, a place where one can be sacramentally united; the flea is the actual "bed" where they were physically united. ... A conceit is a far-fetched and ingenious comparison; Donne has elaborated it "to the farthest stage to which ingenuity can carry it". ...

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Friendships, romantic relationships, infidelity, marriage, lust, and love: all these things are founded on the deeper need of survival of the species. ... What a person desires is usually influenced by the atmosphere they are raised in, so desirable traits can vary from place to place. ... It is this quality that is shared with humans as well as certain animals that leads to family units, packs, pods whatever they are called they all share a common goal: to provide a better chance of survival and strengthen the species as a whole. ... Needless to say these animals" defects do not carry onto ...

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They had said to themselves, "thank God I ain't never had one of them graveyard loves" (128). ... Aside from all the pain Milkman has caused her, the "graveyard love" she possesses for him leaves her "paralyzed" (130) and unable to carry through with killing him. ... She forces herself to believe that Milkman desires all the things she is not and dies with this notion. ...

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This study was carried out using sixty-four students (36 male, 28 women) enrolled in an introductory psychology course at the University of Texas. ... They were then used to determine how much they could learn about each other from the questionnaire information only. ... They wanted to find the relationship between attitude agreement and attraction. They wanted to know if it was affected by topic interest. ... They used 84 students enrolled in an intermediate psychology course at the University of Illinois. ...

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Why He Feigns Insanity Hamlet feigns insanity because it allows him to do several things that he otherwise would be unable to do: With respect to Ophelia, Hamlet would like to express his intense, irrepressible anger towards her without arising suspicion in her or in others that he is in a hostile rational mental state. ... This might make them support Hamlet in his endeavor, thus providing him with the psychological support he needs to carry it out. ... Ordinarily, Hamlet would not greatly resent women, but since in this case they have cornered him into an extremely stressful situa...

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