[PHIL 1700] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 46 pages long Study Guide!
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There is more to love than what is felt in present moment. Learn love as a art: master the theory, master the practice, make the an object of ultimate concern invest in practice like another art. A mosaic of city states (athens, sparta, olympia, and corinth: no political unity- fight against one another, different constitutions diversity in political organization (democratic, monarchies, oligarchies, militarists engage in war. From a cultural and religious point of view. Classical greece (500 - 336bc) culturally: architecture and structure built at this time, olympic games would stop wars to participate athletics connected to war and military, shared religion(polytheistic several gods) Mythological figures relevant for the study of love. Origin: gaia (mother earth) + ouranos (sky) = kronos (abusive son, rhea (mother of olympians) + kronos (abusive father) = aphrodite. Compared to olympics: people competing vs people selling stuff vs people that contemplate spectacle (these people are philosophers)