Plato's Erotic Love

Love is the changeless wishing of reaching Good. A individual is always in a state of striving for something, in which Good is present. Therefore, it is love that supplies adult male with the motive for his actions. Plato believed that everything in the existence aims to achieve Good. Thus, the full existence is in a uninterrupted state of love. He continues: It is love, which do the human race to exist; without love, nil could exist. Every individual is, in a certain sense, a type of lover. Few cognize the physical physical object of their love, which motivates their aspirations and word forms the foundation of all their wishes.

Since all things in the existence word form a single unit, the peak object of love must also be One. The philosopher named this physical object "absolute Good" or "absolute Beauty". To Love this Beauty and Good is the most exalted love, nearing you to immortality.

The Greeks of that epoch also bestowed Beauty and Good with the function of Harmony - things shall not collide if they are Good.

Whatever is truly beautiful must also be good, and whatever is truly good must also be beautiful. Whoever acknowledges an ugly person's goodness, will also acknowledge his beauty. A individual cannot achieve beauty if he is not good. Hence, a person's peak wishing would be that Good and Beauty be present within him throughout his full life, and this is, in effect, what each of us is looking for.

The philosopher short letters that the true lover is that individual who have torn away his shackles, left Socrates' "cave of shadows" and entered the true world.

Notes: The aspiration for integrity mentioned earlier mentions to a reunion with something that had been detached in the distant past.

Summary: Platonic love is a word form of intellectual love, at a high level, yet lacking feelings of love. This is the doctrine's principal flaw.