Sunday, April 3, 2011

What is a platonic love?

Platonic love, also known as the platonic love, to Western philosopher Plato named a heterosexually spirit in love, the pursuit of carnal minds, exclusion. By Marsilio Ficino earliest in the 15th century, as Socrates love of synonyms, used to refer to Socrates and his students love relationship between.

Plato believed that when the flesh and the soul reject longing for the truth, this idea is the best. When the soul is the infection of sin in the flesh, the desire of the people's quest for truth will not be met. When humans do not have the strong demand for carnal, the mind is calm, lust is human performance in space, is the nature of each organism, one reason is the so-called higher animals, because human nature, animal, human nature and strong in the spirit of sharing is good, is the moral.

Platonic love have the following meanings: 1. the ideal of love (figurative extremely romantic or simply unable to realize the concept of love) 2. Pure spirit instead of physical love 3. Equality between men and women love 4. In this world there is one and only one person, for you (you), she (he) is perfect, and only for you (you) is perfect.   This means that any one person, has its perfect object, but only one. The first meaning of the most commonly used, but is actually a misunderstanding. But now that everyone is so used, or even another significance. This misconception comes from Plato's a famous book "Utopia".   This book discusses how to construct an ideal country, because it may be too idealistic and difficult to implement, so someone to interpret what is platonic love. The second meaning is always used, but basically it is a misunderstanding.   This misconception comes from Plato's metaphysics, he thought the idea of what is real and we see the so-called "real world" thing but is not real.  The third and fourth meaning really is Plato's view of love or sex. Plato thought people lived and died in the truest sense of the world, where everyone is full of men and women, fitness, to the world we are split in two. So people feel that if we lose, trying to find their own "other half" (this word also from Plato's theory).   Plato also used this to explain why people will have a "Romance". In his theory, not the half of the more important, so that men and women are equal. Furthermore, the concept of world you (you) of the original and the other half is for you (you) the perfect object. He/she is in a corner of the world, or are looking for you.

(Editors: Dawn 1m1m)

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