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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.
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]
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.
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.
Twenty-nine epigrams are attributed to Plato, mostly in the Greek Anthology.These are short poems suitable for dedicatory purposes written in the form of elegiac couplets. [1]
Georgios Gemistos Plethon was born in Constantinople in 1355/1360. [11] Raised in a family of well-educated Orthodox Christians, [12] he studied in Constantinople and Adrianople, before returning to Constantinople and establishing himself as a teacher of philosophy. [13]
Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum [edd], An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, A User Friendly Reference for Episcopalians (New York, Church Publishing Incorporated) Jacob Klein, A Commentary on Plato's Meno (Chicago, 1989), pp. 103–173. Norman Gulley, Plato's Theory of Knowledge (London, 1962), pp. 1–47.
Sacred and Profane Love (Italian: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano) is an oil painting by Titian, probably painted in 1514, early in his career. The painting is presumed to have been commissioned by Niccolò Aurelio, a secretary to the Venetian Council of Ten , whose coat of arms appears on the sarcophagus or fountain, to celebrate his marriage to a ...