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A Comparison Of Love In Plato's Phaedrus

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Two speeches In this essay, we will compare and contrast two different speeches on love in Plato’s Phaedrus. First speech and second speeches are blaming love .the first speech by Lysias and second speech by Socrates. The definition of Love is the attraction, which contains sexual desire and the strong love felt by person who has a romantic relationship. There are two people who are Socrates talking to the young man who is Phaedrus. Also, both of them love speeches and like to listen to speeches. They are friendly and they know each other very well. The dialogue takes place in a nice place outside the wall of the city. The speech is generally about love and Socrates is famous in some of dialogue and he claims the only knowledge he has is knowledge of love. We human being are weak and vulnerable and we have short lives. We missing so many things that we need. Socrates has knowledge of human needs. The speech we will see is little bet is strange speech and the man is trying to sleep with the beautiful attractive young person, but He said you should do that weather is love you or specially do not love you and it is better for you. The dialogue is talking both kind of love, such as homosexual love or gay love and heterosexual love. Bot of them are common at the time of the speech take place. The Socrates said that you should know when you give the speech or …show more content…

According to Lysias that pleasure is two kinds. The first one is immediate pleasure, which means lover feel pleaser since the lover think about his beloved depend on his feeling. The second kind of pleasure is long-term pleasure. It will happen when non-lover think about everything in the good ways or considerate ways. Lysias always claims that the lover should choose their beloved based on their personalities. On the other way, if lovers choose his beloved based on their things that relate to their feeling will face long-term

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