ipl-logo

The Role Of Friendship In Plato's Symposium

1163 Words5 Pages

Friendship is an important part of the human life that guides human existence that guides how two humans in mutual understanding and relationship relate to each other. Nehamas and Woodruff (1989) provide Aristotle's description of friendship; that is goodwill that is reciprocated. Friendship is a phenomenon that happens every day in life amongst human beings with people falling in and out of friendship. There exist various kinds of friendships that are founded upon various needs, relations, and reasons. The source of the reciprocated goodwill brings the difference between perfect or complete friendships and imperfect or incomplete friendships. This paper uses the text 'Plato Symposium' in the discussion of the Aristotelian notion of friendship, exploration of the different types of friendship, exploration of complete and incomplete friendship and insight on how virtuous actions and …show more content…

This is the type of friendship that occurs only amongst people of exceptional virtues and who love and wish each other good and is based on the mutual good that each of the friends admires from the other. Aristotle describes moral virtues as a character to act appropriately, and a means between the extents of imperfection and vices. Complete friendships are also referred to as perfect friendships or Virtuous friendships. The emphasis or foundation of a complete friendship is the good virtue in the other partner in the friendship. Each sees and admires the good virtues in the other thus loves them for who they are and wishes them good. Friendship based goodwill is an example of perfect or rather complete friendship. An example of this kind of friendship is two friends who admire each other for their abilities and talents and want goodness in the form of success for each other to an extent where they can go out of their way for the benefit of the

Show More
Related
513 Words | 3 Pages

“A friend will strengthen you with his prayers, bless you with his love, and encourage you with his love,” (Proverb Zone). Friendship is the helping of others by inviting them to be a part of one’s life. In Chris Crutcher’s Whale Talk, T.J. has to build a swim team that can achieve a letterman jacket to prove others wrong about themselves. Friendship is seen throughout many books including this one. In Whale Talk, Chris Crutcher demonstrates friendship ensures that people are not alone through school teams, anti-bullying, and mentorship.

Read More
532 Words | 3 Pages

Concerning Characters Concern ranks in the top of characteristics for a true friend to have. People with this quality care more for others. The Bible says “That there should be no schism in the body: but that the members should have the same care one for another. ”(1 Corinthians 12:25).

Read More
474 Words | 2 Pages

Friendship relies on shared support of one another,

Read More
365 Words | 2 Pages

What’s the purpose of friendship? Unfortunately, I was forced to learn this the hard way when I attended the ‘Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars’ Summer Academy over the summer of my junior year. The experience at the academy was unlike any other, but the challenge to make new friends was the most intimidating there than anywhere else that I’ve visited, especially at my own school. Yet, my school holds many of the common and well known people, such as teachers, that I could lean on for mental support, while at the academy had everything but Franklin County. What I meant by ‘but Franklin County’, I am actually referring to the wide varieties of different ethnicities and educational backgrounds that imploded into one single summer

Read More
298 Words | 2 Pages

For this week's journal entry, I would like to bring up the idea of "wisdom" in reference to Plato's Apology.  Personally, I find that the way in which Socrates defends is wisdom is admirable, and although it leads to the verdict of him being killed, I think that this decision and the reaction by Socrates helps define wisdom. Socrates, in essence, says that he does not fear death because he is wise.  No one knows what death is -- perhaps it may be the best thing a person gets to experience. However, a person that is unwise would approach death into thinking that it is the worst thing that can happen in life.

Read More
129 Words | 1 Pages

Friendship has many different impacts on many characters in different ways depending on its presence or absence. Although friendship’s presence and absence are complete opposites, they

Read More
1343 Words | 6 Pages

The language in Plato’s symposium and the expression of Sappho’s poetry are similar in that they both deal with homoerotic love. Sappho, the only ancient Greek female author whose work survived, talks from the female point of observation, where as Plato’s work concentrates on the idea of love among males. In spite of the fact that both of their points of view are comparative in courses, for example, their thoughts of physical fascination and want, Plato’s work creates a better understanding of the nature of love then Sappho’s ideas. This understanding will be shown with three arguments and counter- arguments in order to demonstrate the dominance of Plato over Sappho. It will than be concluded with an overview of the main idea and a recap of the three arguments made for Plato.

Read More
601 Words | 3 Pages

Friendship, a word strong enough to, at one time, be a state nickname and a word that affects every aspect of society. But what is friendship? One might define friendship as an emotional tie or linkage between two people. This statement is true. However, friendship should not be left so impersonal.

Read More
1134 Words | 5 Pages

In Plato’s Symposium, Aristophanes story is very unique to why we have partners. Aristophanes story is like an old fable. It begins with three sexes all body’s had 2 heads,4 arms, 4 legs and two sets of genitals. These beings were very powerful could move very quickly in all directions and would spin using their circular bodies. Men came from the sun, women came from earth and the third gender came from the moon.

Read More
818 Words | 4 Pages

This essay’s aims are to evaluate the contribution of a qualitative approach to friendship. I will discuss how different approaches studying friendship have been developed and how the findings influenced our understanding of friendships. Also, my focus will be on the benefits of quantitative and qualitative approaches and the limits of using qualitative methods for understanding friendship. In this paper, I will focus on two major

Read More
637 Words | 3 Pages

When looking at friendship in regards to a community an apparent quality that makes a community function is friendship. Both Aristotle and Kant make important points that are essential to what can make a community driven towards the common good. The common good is going too held up in most cases in the framework of a community by Aristotle’s utility friendship; the next two forms of friendship that are encountered quite regularly are Kant’s forms of friendship of need and taste. Between these three types of friendship one should be able to relate to an acquaintance type of relationship. These friendships resemble many of our interactions that we have with people consistently especially in this culture we are subject to on a regular basis.

Read More
1074 Words | 5 Pages

In order to evaluate the contribution of qualitative research on friendship, it is crucial to define and have some background of friendship, define and understand qualitative approach and then evaluate its contribution to friendship research. Friendship is considered to be one of the pillars of day to day life starting from childhood to very old age. Friendship is a complex endeavour and can be difficult to define as it may have different meanings to different people at different times. Friendship has different stages and occurs inversely in different stages of life i,e childhood, adolescence, and adulthood friend, long-term friend, best friend, good friend, school friend, college friend and etc. Friendship is a mutual trust and support between

Read More
712 Words | 3 Pages

What is a friend? A common response to this question seems to be someone who accepts another for who they are. Another less used response to the same question is someone who leave another better than they once were. These two half definitions of friendship come to gather to explain that friend is someone who takes another how they already are and leaves that better than their previous state. True friendship often adds loyalty to ones character resulting in acts of courage.

Read More
427 Words | 2 Pages

Friendship is one of important part in our lives. Most of the time, a good friend knows you better than yourself. There are many meanings that relay to being a good friend, especially because everyone does not have the same personality. Similarly, in The Epic of Gilgamesh, we can perceive several relationships, but the one between Gilgamesh and Enkidu’s friendship plays an important part of the story.

Read More
1497 Words | 6 Pages

Friendships in the play are not portrayed as being good ones as friendships are for self-gain such as to get information. Lastly,

Read More

More about The Role Of Friendship In Plato's Symposium

Related Topics

Open Document