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20625660 No.20625660 [Reply] [Original]

Platonic love isn't unerotic love. It is erotic love that finds its fulfillment not in sexual communion but in contemplation of the Forms

>> No.20625714

Eros is one of the four major kinds of Greek love and it is the one specifically about sex. Only forms being contemplated in it are the callipygian kind

>> No.20625720

>>20625660
Suuuuuuuuure

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>>20625714
Did you read Symposium anon? Eros is what inspires the philosopher...

>> No.20625740

>>20625732
Yessss. Did you read Charmides?

>> No.20625742

>>20625660
Yeah bih the form of dat ass.

>> No.20625745

>>20625740
Of course. That is what I am saying. Temperance! Eros is redirected towards philosophical ends... love of individual beauty becomes love of universal Beauty and cultivation of inner Beauty...

>> No.20625748

>>20625745
Mmm, I don’t think you can coom from that so I don’t see how that works

>> No.20625758

>>20625748
I think the point is not to coom. This is what Nietzsche criticised him for. It is a rather cruel conception of love. The beloved is not loved in and of themselves, but loved as a stepping stone to the Good, or whatever. Fidelity and commitment to a single human being seem, if I am interpreting Plato correctly, to be a kind of error.

>> No.20626092

>>20625714
fpbp