Platos idea of love.?
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http://www.practical-philosophy.org.uk/Volume4Articles/PlatoTheoryOfLove.htm\ncheck out that link.  And remember, don't plagarize.  Good luck on your paper!
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I don't know if you strictly need to differentiate the two.\n\n  Love is a process that takes building a history, commonalities, shared intimacies, and mutual respect and support of another. Do you believe that in what I just wrote, that might equate to friendship as well?\n\n  Hopefully when love finally occurs, without being forced, friendship is a large part of the love base, and ongoing attitude.\n\n  Also Love has levels, IE: the love of a parent, sibling, wife, husband, boyfriend girlfriend, even self, and even though it's often irrational and difficult to define, we so often say the word as if we were saying "AND",,, or,,,"UM."\n\n  I see many questions here, asking, "I LOVE, what to do???"\n\n  Or "MY BEST Friend  did,,,,,, what to do?"\n\n  First of all, everyone obviously has different definitions for the word LOVE and it's emotional effects.\nI suggest it may be said that one loves, but it isn't truly instant, or may be it isn't even understood?\n\n  A BEST friend,,,so often said,,, MY closest Friend,,, They did something bad to me."\n\n  I suggest in those questions, that the "friend" truly isn't\n\n  If anyone must say to another, "I Love YOU" They should be prepared to either enjoy it as a process, grow into it, try to understand the concepts, and defining points, and/or prepare for the fact that it may not last eternally, or may be defined and expressed differently by the one we attach the word to.\n\n  My best suggestion would be ,,,DON"T,,, to strictly answer your question.\n\nRev. Steven
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well, i'd first like to just say that i personally dont fully agree with this quote as why would it be better to love and lose it than not experiencing love if you can keep the love and work not to lose it? ignorance, as some say, is bliss...\n\nanyway... i shall elaborate for u...  the quote basically says that it is better to experience love and then lose it rather than never find out and experience it. a lot of ppl believe in this because they believe that love is the best thing in the world, and like other things, it too has and end. but, they say that at least they had a taste of what it was like and the memories of love would forever be on their mind to keep on going... and after experiencing love, or while experiencing love, they will  probably feel on top of the world that they pity those who have not expeienced love yet as they haven't ever been happy in the arms of a loved one as they would feel truly happy.....\n\nor sumthing like that, i hope u understand what i just typed, but if not, i'm sorry then :D
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True, endless love? Absolutely yes!\n\nThe poets sing and the philosophers dream, and we mortals aspire to that highest grace -- love.\n\nPure, absolute, unconditional, undying love ... \n\nI found my true love -- my soul-mate -- and I shall love her to the end of my days and unto any world to come, no matter what. We have thus far crossed many distances and hard paths while our love grows more all the time. I will walk through this world with her, and even if some cruel design of fate should take her from me, she will still forever be my only true love.
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platonic love is where there is no sexual attraction, more like brother and sister.  Friendship on the other hand can have other feelings involved but its where you start a healthy relationship.  With female to male friendships its possibel to have both platonic love and romantic love not in the same friendship.
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Do u mean Platonic love?. It means pure or non physical love. \nfrom wiki\nPlatonic love in its modern popular sense is an affectionate relationship into which the sexual element does not enter, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise. A simple example of platonic relationships is friendship between two heterosexual people of the opposite sexes.\n\nAt the same time, this interpretation is a misunderstanding of the nature of the Platonic ideal of love, which from its origin was that of a chaste but passionate love, based not on disinterest but virtuous restraint.\n\n... refere
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I really really really love this question. I think you may just be right.They definitly have a greek/roman theme going. the god of love, the love carebear, grumpy carebear and the gods of war
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Love asks for nothing.\n\nA long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it. \n\nAfter a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.\n\nJudging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.\n\nI thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.\n\nI realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do. \n\nIf I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.\n\nI still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.\n\nLove and blessings \n\nYour brother \ndon
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well--those are interesting answers-- and not completly wrong -but mostly--(this is my simple view of course) \n\nas for the poet and their words on thoughts of love(which they say they have printed many times).I can only say i understand what you are saying, but feel you may have missed a subtle point and ,therefore,somewhat mistaken.In poetry -a metaphor is used as symbol not the actuality of the absolute -nor is a similie a perfect match.So,often one's thoughts and writings have meaning and form ,and even truth of belief.However,they do not contain the truth in whole or as an absolute.\n\nThe rest are simply snippets of thoughts mostly brought out from a subjective view.However, they too contain their own (subjective)absolutes of truth,just as a poetic(or lyrical) expressed want or need ,or for that matter ,a non-desired want or need .A subjective absolute--is not complete, nor  can it be, without first perceiving it on its base form.\n\n So,what is the base form ? First you have to place its point of origin.AS for Love it seems to be a Human trait,which we in turn give to others and also place onto other creatures and various forms of life which are to our liking.\n\nAS a word it exists;as an emotion we connect it to the word.And,as with many words, it is something we give and recieve within our own various ways.Therefore,it can not be an illusion nor non-existant.However,it could be something disguised , which in many ways it is and shall always be for many a good(and bad) reason.Nevertheless,I do not believe you to be wholeheartly wrong or in any sense of the word in a complete or utter state of denial.There is substance in words and emotions,just like those contained in actions\n\nI think if you see it more as an extension ,and not an illusion per se of the mind ,it may be easier in this way to view and draw to a conclusion a simple, yet difficult absolute and truth : the validity of love and existance or not.\n\n   I shall leave it there. with love or not.In form and extensions.metaphors and similies.\n\ncheers
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I believe that the only way to fully understand Plato's meaning here is to first read "The Allegory of the Cave" -- found in Plato's Republic. Here, Plato gives an analogy of life that depicts chained folks in an underground cave to represent the masses. They are all facing a wall and can only see shadows of things, mistaking them for the things themselves. Meanwhile, one "prisoner" breaks free. He, of course, is the philosopher. He sees the things for what they really are and tries to tell the others that they have only known shadows, but they only mock him, saying he must surely be mad. Please understand, this is a very shortened view, and it doesn't quite explain the above quote, (which I have never heard), but I will give it a shot.\n\nPerhaps Plato is trying to say that we are better off if we are able to laugh at ourselves than at others. In other words, if we can laugh at ourselves once we emerge from the cave and see that we have been mistaken our entire life -- well, that is better than just yelling down the hole, "Hey all you business majors -- you still don't get it!"\n\nSomething like that.
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I have come to the conclusion that the only infinite emotion for a human is love. throughout life a human being wont be able to live without love. when everything goes down.... love is the one thing that can keep you going. but of course that is a subjective observation lol. not everybody understands romance lol. and no it doesnt ever end completely!
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Nope... I think he/she/it is far too high level to have such things as emotions. Emotions are a quirky human thing. I do feel however that there is one underlying condition that pervades everything in creation and that is unconditional love.
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A platonic relationship is the same as a regular one , but without romance.It is more of an intellectual relationship.
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Courtly Love is the set of ideas and rules about love. Troubadour poets promoted the idea that the true love only exists outside marriage. The Courtly Love relationship is not between husband and wife.\n\nIt is interesting that in contrast to earlier literature true love may be idealized and spiritual, and may exist without ever being physically consummated. It is kind of protective relationship "...so that no blame shoud touch her." ( Bernart de Ventadorn, Poem 24, 32).\n\nIn contrast to Beowulf or Iliad this culture nobilities women (the idea that a man becomes the servant of the lady he loves (Bernart de Ventadorn "... I shall be her man, and her lover, and her servant...") Indeed, woman plays an increasingly important ... \n\nfor more info try link:\nhttp://www.cheathouse.com/essay/essay_view.php?p_essay_id=54513
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Plato quoted it:\n\n"Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."\n\nN.B.: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
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There was actually a very interesting article about the chemistry of love in "National Geographic" magazine a few months back. You should google their website and see if they have any info about it there.\n\nOne interesting note that I recall from the article: the chemical profile of the brains of people who are in love is very much like that of a bipolar person. In other words, love is a psychological disorder.\n\nScary, ain't it?
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Plato thought that art is an imitation of an imitation, and thus is hopelessly far from the source of the truth. He also thought that art is powerful, and therefore dangerous.\n\nHe is also quoted as saying that "Art has no end but its own perfection."