women and transformation Flashcards
1
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myth of adonis
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- Love acts as a transformative force
- Creates a cycle
- Adonis dies and becomes a flower – representing new life
- Love conquers all, anger breeds hate
2
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myth of adonis
- Hesiod
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- Comes from beauty, cosmos, divine
- Creation story
- She is because she was not created in sex
- Urania – born from sea foam
- Heavenly Godess
3
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myth of adonis
- Hommer
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- Mischiveous
- Juvenille
- Story of the Trojan horse
- Born from Zeus and Dione
- Cannot have Anchies (her son) in realm since she falls in love with a mortal, she tries to get him elevated to hero so he can be immortal like her
- Homer Hymn to Aphrodite
4
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diotima
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- Immortality
- Loving one body, loving many bodies, loving beauty in practices, loving beautiful forms, loving beauty in and of itself – ascent tradition
- You can love a lot of beautiful people, when you look beyond external features and look to their personality, love their practices, recognize that beautiful forms are found within institutions (music), all beautiful forms are derived from a single form of beauty, beauty in and of itsef
5
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Diotima – what love is
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- It is through beauty that everything manifests
- Love is not a god or a goddess
- Love is a desure for the beautiful, desire for what is good
- Love is between what we lack and what we want
6
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pausanias
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- Love is not singular
- It can be seductive, secretiative and manipulative
- It can inspire us towards something better
- Love is diverse
7
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Eryximachus
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- Love is found throughout nature
- Love can bring harmony – promoting well ordered people, promote love of those seeking to improve, promote balance in sexuality
8
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Aristophanes
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-Love is aspring and pushing us towards our soulmates (soul mate story)
9
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agathan
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- Love is beauty
- Equates love and beauty
- Love is the youngest and most beautiful God (Eros)
- Four critical virtues of love/beauty – justice, courage, moderation and wisdom
10
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socrates
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- Love is of beauty
- Does not believe in Eros
- Love is something that we are drawn to (something we lack in ourselves)
- Beauty is wisdom
11
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phaedrus
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- Love regulates behaviour – love is what inspires us to do something for something outside of ourselves
- Provides virtue
- Eros
12
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christianity
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- Augustine
- C.S. Lewis
13
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augustine
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- Love brings us closer to God, loving God is the final ascent
- Self-less love and charity were the most important
14
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C.S Lewis
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- Unconditional love (agape) that God has for his creation (gift love)
- Need love is the conditioned side of love, it is the love that humans need
- Levels of love
- Affection
- Friendship
- Eros
- Charity
15
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judaic
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- Charity love is the closest to God’s love
- God’s love is never ending while humans are not capable of that love
