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  2. Platonic love - Wikipedia

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    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 for this soon waned under pressures of social and political change.

  3. Amour de soi - Wikipedia

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    Amour de soi (French: [a.muʁ də swa]; lit. ' self-love ' ) is a concept in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that refers to the kind of self-love that humans share with brute animals and predates the appearance of society.

  4. Eros (concept) - Wikipedia

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    In the classical world, erotic love was generally described as a kind of madness or theia mania ("madness from the gods"). [5] This erotic love was described through an elaborate metaphoric and mythological schema involving "love's arrows" or "love darts", the source of which was often the personified figure of Eros (or his Latin counterpart, Cupid), [6] or another deity (such as Rumor). [7]

  5. Diairesis - Wikipedia

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    A complementary term is merismos (cf. English merism: parsing or the distinguishing of parts, as opposed to diairesis, which is the division of a genus into its parts). For example, in the Sophist (§235B), the Eleatic Stranger is examining illusions, which consist of words and "visual objects."

  6. Amour-propre - Wikipedia

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    Amour-propre (French: [amuʁ pʁɔpʁ]; lit. ' self-love ') is a French term that can be variously translated as "self-love", "self-esteem", or "vanity".In philosophy, it is a term used by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who contrasts it with another kind of self-love, which he calls amour de soi.

  7. 'My So-Called Life' at 30: How a short-lived show became a ...

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    Thirty years after its short but memorable run on ABC, it is widely regarded as a miraculous one-season wonder that captures the era's competing strains of irony and earnestness.

  8. Cratylus (dialogue) - Wikipedia

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    Cratylus (/ ˈ k r æ t ɪ l ə s / KRAT-il-əs; Ancient Greek: Κρατύλος, Kratylos) is the name of a dialogue by Plato.Most modern scholars agree that it was written mostly during Plato's so-called middle period. [1]

  9. These YA Authors Want to Change How We Talk About Body Size ...

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    To explore these questions, I spoke with four authors who've helped reshape YA literature's approach to weight and body image: Julie Murphy, whose Dumplin' sparked a revolution in representation ...