Packet K: Tossup 20

Richard Rorty’s claim that this concept becomes morally dubious after reading Sigmund Freud is discussed in a David Velleman paper. The “Quality View” of this concept has led to the “trading-up” objection discussed by Rosalind Chaplin and Adam Smith. In a book subtitled “New Visions,” bell hooks argues this concept is something that we (10[1])must (10[1])choose, (10[2])rather than something (10[1])that simply (10[2])happens to us. (10[2])According (-5[1])to a Platonic dialogue, (-5[1])this concept (10[1])arose after the original, powerful, (10[1]-5[1])and round race of humans (-5[3])were punished (10[4]-5[1])for (10[1]-5[2])climbing (10[1]-5[1])Mount Olympus. (10[1]-5[3])Diotima (-5[1])of (-5[1])Mantinea (10[1])teaches Socrates (10[2]-5[1])about the true nature (10[1])of this concept in that dialogue (10[2])that imagines it as the desire for (10[1])the other half. (10[8]-5[1])For (10[2])10 points, (10[4])Plato’s dialogue Symposium discusses what concept, (10[3])which Greeks variously called philia, (10[4])agape (10[3])(“ah-GAH-pay”), and (10[1])eros? (10[1])■END■ (10[9])

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