Why Lovers Could Never Be Friends

Love is unique in its striking ability to be a driving force in dictating interpersonal relationships. It patterns behavior and orients individuals towards their distinct, unique attractions. According to Velleman, love penetrates deeper than one’s qualities; it extends to one’s rational will, or the essence of a person. To him, though love appears to have particularity, it is also a moral emotion. Kolodny subscribes to the relationship theory, asserting that an ongoing, interpersonal, and historical relationship with a relative is a part of the reason for love. In Kolodny’s view, the existence of the true self is irrelevant, as is the morality of love. Both Velleman and Kolodny disprove the quality theory; however, their perceptions of love and its morality differ. I believe that Kolodny is correct in his view that morality is irrelevant to love and that there must be factual reasons for love. Although it is enticing to believe that one is attracted to the essence of another, the essence is not motivation enough for love. The relationship theory takes into account the motivation needed to love a particular person from a historical, interpersonal, and ongoing perspective.

* Close relationships can be formed between good friends, the closer the relationship becomes the more thoughts, feelings and hopes are shared

A man having a beloved is a demonstrating that he has one of the “noblest” traits of all. Furthermore, the beloved is positively impacted by this Love. Even if he is not yet old enough to have this Love, receiving Love improves the beloved. The social constructs of this time allowed for the male-male relationships discussed in Symposium, but these dialogues also reveal how the perception of the relationships reinforced these constructs. Given how old and noble Love is, social status can be improved by a Loving relationship between lover and

As the ongoing debate of gun control seems to be never getting any change or differences made, America is persistent to getting these changes. People are speaking out against gun violence in America and making an action plan. After many tragedies from gun violence, they are ready for changes to be made. The media has very back and forth views on gun control. Gun violence has affected the media in America by showing harsh realities, hidden truths, and sad stories.

During the relationship between the lover and the beloved, the lover will be kind to the beloved, but when it ends, the lover will love someone else, disregarding the previous relationship, thus hurting the past beloved (231c). So that after having some extended relationship with the lover, and for example, the lover's passion withers away and the beloved and the lover are no longer together, although the beloved may

In the play `Romeo and Juliet` the writer William Shakespeare uses the theme of love as a main feature to push the story along. Presented are a plethora of variations of love including family love, true love and courtly love. This essay aims to analyse these three types of love chosen.

From the 19th century through the early 20th century, romantic friendships flourished in America. These relationships, found between both men and women and most commonly within the middle class, provided support invaluable to those involved and were distinctively more intimate than comparable relationships preceding and following them that were not explicitly romantic. The unique intimate nature of romantic friendships and their progression and decline provide important clues into the nature of 19th and early 20th century American society and thought, especially in terms of concepts of gender and sexuality.

Aristotle describes the basic terms of what he refers to as the friendship of pleasure. In this type of friendship, an individual is seeking something from which they can derive pleasure. Aristotle believes that this sort of relationship is built on love and passion, which constantly changes. Similarly to utility friendships, Aristotle shows that friendships of pleasure are unstable and can abruptly change. He argues that people “quickly become friends and quickly stop” and “love and stop loving quickly”. If this is the case and people are merely running around chasing what they enjoy at the moment, this type of friendship will be frail and has the potential to fall apart quickly. This friendship is based off of the pleasure or the fun you receive by being around the person you are

In the play, we see many of the aspects of relationships that we have talked about in class, or the lack there of, like the importance of communication in close relationships. We discussed

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We only call a certain category of those in love, lovers (Symposium 7) and in contrast with what Aristophanes had said about lovers being in search of their other half, Diotima argues that lovers love what is good. After all, the aim of loving beautiful and good things, of course, is to possess them, because the possession of beautiful and good things is wisdom and with wisdom comes happiness and happiness is deep-down what everyone is ultimately in pursuit of.

Cell phones have become somewhat essential items to people living in this time. About 75% of teenagers aged 12-17 own cell phones, as of 2010. The use of cell phones in the classroom has been a debate for quite some time. Many believe that they could contribute to learning and understanding information, while others believe that smartphones can be a major distraction. Cell phones should not be allowed in the classroom. They distract and disrupt, computers have been a reliable source, and they can influence cyberbullying.

When one looks at romantic love, one would conclude that it is a social dyad that brings about certain responsibilities between two people in a relationship such as honesty, protection, openness and expressions of love. (William, 2008: 76). Contrasting with

A close-knit loving bond between two people can begin with a friendship. Whether it is a friendship between two males, two females, or one male and one female, these friendships will develop into love. In no way is it a romantic love, but this type of love connects and bonds friends. Friends may move away or friendships may wane, but the love between the two people burns on forever.

When discussing love, people generally think about the love between a husband and wife, or the love between a couple in a romantic partnership, and that is one type of love that I will be discussing. In addition to romantic love, there are other types of love also. There is the love we have for our children, our families, and also the love that we have for our friends. All of these types of love share some of the same attributes, however, they have differences also. In reading and researching different types of love, I have found that romantic love and friendship seem to be the most similar in nature, although they have differences, they share a lot of the same attributes. I found that friendship and romantic love tend to have more similarities than differences. In this paper I will examine romantic love and friendship. I will discuss the definitions of the two, and what elements each of these have. I will discuss the different theories of love, and I will compare and contrast the similarities and differences between romantic love and friendship.