Plato's most famous exposition of love can be found in his dialogue "Can Drink". (See Taylor, translated by Xie: Plato: Life and Works, Shandong People's Publishing House, 199 1 Edition, pp. 299-335. Drinking depicts a scene for us: Seven thinkers in ancient Greece get together to drink, and one of the guests asks everyone present to talk about their views on eros, the god of love. This initiative immediately gets everyone's response.
Pedro said, "eros is the oldest, the most respected and the most powerful among the gods. He can give people courage and bring happiness, whether alive or after death. "
Passignat said that God has two lovers, one is an ordinary or secular eros, and he pursues pleasure, not beauty. The other is eros who "got rid of lust" in the kingdom of heaven. Passignat believes that noble love is not dominated by the beauty and temptation of the body, and noble love can inspire people's vitality and give them extraordinary courage.
Aristophanes's speech is the most famous part of the whole conversation. He quoted a fairy tale: man was originally a "spherical" creature with four arms, four legs and two faces, looking in different directions, but connected at the top to form a skull. The audacity of human beings made the gods on Mount Opis uneasy, so Zeus split them from the middle of their bodies. From then on, "every half is running around, eager to find their other half", "they are entangled, hugging, and strongly hope to integrate". This desire to reunite with the lost half is earthly love.
Then came Socrates' speech. Socrates told the story of the birth of cupid. Cupid is the son of Ross, the god of wealth, and Penny, the god of poverty. He inherited the gift from his parents. Like his mother, he is poor, ugly, untidy and homeless. But he has the temperament of a father. He longs for all good and kind things. He is brave, persistent, knowledgeable and pursues wisdom. Cupid's inner contradiction reveals the essence of love to people, that is, love embodies an irresistible strong desire to pursue beauty in consciousness.
Zeus' axe separated us. Plato's theory of spiritual love
Plato's most famous exposition of love can be found in his dialogue "Can Drink". (See Taylor, translated by Xie: Plato: Life and Works, Shandong People's Publishing House, 199 1 Edition, pp. 299-335. Drinking depicts a scene for us: Seven thinkers in ancient Greece get together to drink, and one of the guests asks everyone present to talk about their views on eros, the god of love. This initiative immediately gets everyone's response.
Pedro said, "eros is the oldest, the most respected and the most powerful among the gods. He can give people courage and bring happiness, whether alive or after death. "
Passignat said that God has two lovers, one is an ordinary or secular eros, and he pursues pleasure, not beauty. The other is eros who "got rid of lust" in the kingdom of heaven. Passignat believes that noble love is not dominated by the beauty and temptation of the body, and noble love can inspire people's vitality and give them extraordinary courage.
Aristophanes's speech is the most famous part of the whole conversation. He quoted a fairy tale: man was originally a "spherical" creature with four arms, four legs and two faces, looking in different directions, but connected at the top to form a skull. The audacity of human beings made the gods on Mount Opis uneasy, so Zeus split them from the middle of their bodies. From then on, "every half is running around, eager to find their other half", "they are entangled, hugging, and strongly hope to integrate". This desire to reunite with the lost half is earthly love.
Then came Socrates' speech. Socrates told the story of the birth of cupid. Cupid is the son of Ross, the god of wealth, and Penny, the god of poverty. He inherited the gift from his parents. Like his mother, he is poor, ugly, untidy and homeless. But he has the temperament of a father. He longs for all good and kind things. He is brave, persistent, knowledgeable and pursues wisdom. Cupid's inner contradiction reveals the essence of love to people, that is, love embodies an irresistible strong desire to pursue beauty in consciousness.
The fish was amused:
Imagine if a person really has four legs, then four pairs of four hands, and then a round head can have two halves, and can turn back and forth four times, and men and women are together. But I imagined the opposite situation, and then we parted ways, so how can we face it instead of retreating, isn't it? Therefore, many times, when people find the other half, they are opposite to each other, so they are human hearts and are opposite to each other. Therefore, there is a saying among our common people that enemies don't get together, which may be because people from classical mythology are opposed to each other, not facing each other. But if human beings want to turn Gan Kun around and face each other, they will go against their own will, the original rules, the original intention and Zeus. So it will bring a lot of pain [tears], because twisting melons is not sweet!