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All About Love: Do You Know The Platonic Love?As my previous post in the past about Love, now let me remind you again, Love is...
What is Love?
Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. Love is also a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection; and "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".
Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels. Love may also be described as actions towards others (or oneself) based on compassion, or as actions towards others based on affection. In English, love refers to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from pleasure ("I loved that meal") to interpersonal attraction ("I love my partner"). "Love" may refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the sexual love of eros, to the emotional closeness of familial love, or the platonic love that defines friendship, to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.
And now, Do You Know The Platonic Love?
Platonic love is a chaste and strong type of love that is non-sexual. And then, how about the Chastity is? Chastity refers to the sexual behavior of a man or woman acceptable to the moral standards and guidelines of a culture, civilization, or religion. In the western world, the term has become closely associated (and is often used interchangeably) with sexual abstinence, especially before marriage. However, the term remains applicable to persons in all states, single or married, clerical or lay, and has implications beyond sexual temperance. The words "chaste" and "chastity" stem from the Latin adjective castus meaning "pure". The words entered the English language around the middle of the 13th century; at that time they meant slightly different things. "Chaste" meant "virtuous or pure from unlawful sexual intercourse" (referring to extramarital sex), while "chastity" meant "virginity". It was not until the late 16th century that the two words came to have the same basic meaning as a related adjective and noun.
Now back to more details about the Platonic Love...The Platonic Love can be called Amor Platonicus(in French). The term amor platonicus was coined as early as the 15th century by the Florentine scholar Marsilio Ficino. Platonic love in this original sense of the term is examined in Plato's dialogue the Symposium, which has as its topic the subject of love or Eros generally. It explains the possibilities of how the feeling of love began, and how it has evolved - both sexually and non-sexually. Of particular importance are the ideas attributed to the prophetess Diotima, which present love as a means of ascent to contemplation of the divine. For Diotima, and for Plato generally, the most correct use of love of other human beings is to direct one's mind to love of divinity. In short, with genuine platonic love, the beautiful or lovely other person inspires the mind and the soul and directs one's attention to spiritual things. It was thought that Greek male and boy lovers were one of the noblest examples of this type of spiritual love. For it is a true love if you love a male because you love them for spiritual reasons, loving women was seen as only for sexual greed. One proceeds from recognition of the beauty of another to appreciation of beauty as it exists apart from any individual, to consideration of divinity, the source of beauty, to love of divinity.
The English term dates back as far as Sir William Davenant's Platonic Lovers (1636). It is derived from the concept in Plato's Symposium of the love of the idea of good which lies at the root of all virtue and truth. For a brief period, Platonic love was a fashionable subject at the English royal court, especially in the circle around Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of King Charles I. Platonic love was the theme of some of the courtly masques performed in the Caroline era—though the fashion soon waned under pressures of social and political change. Barbara Graziosi, professor of Classics at Durham University, described Platonic love as the "Christian apology" of Greek love.
Watch out the videos about the Platonic Love..
1. The first video, a man explains you about the platonic love..
In the Symposium Plato gives an account of the origins of love and desire which traces it to a mythic division at the heart of our selves. We come into the world as divided beings and spend our lives searching for our other halves, and the pangs of love are the feelings of this search and the joy of its ending. Maybe an alternative version of this story would find us, not separate from one other person, but separate from the world inself. We are here, thrown into the world and obliged to find our way in it without having a clue what the reason might be or where the controls are, or what the rules of the road demand of us.
2. The second video entertains you with a song of platonic love..let enjoy...
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