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  2. Platonic love - Wikipedia

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    Platonic love [1] is a type of love in which sexual desire or romantic features are nonexistent or have been suppressed, sublimated, or purgated, but it means more than simple friendship. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The term is derived from the name of Greek philosopher Plato , though the philosopher never used the term himself.

  3. Greek words for love - Wikipedia

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    The Modern Greek word "erotas" means "intimate love". Plato refined his own definition: Although eros is initially felt for a person, with contemplation it becomes an appreciation of the beauty within that person, or and may ultimately transcend particulars to become an appreciation of beauty itself, hence the concept of platonic love to mean ...

  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. List of love and lust deities - Wikipedia

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    Anteros, god of requited love. Eros, god of love and procreation; originally a deity unconnected to Aphrodite, he was later made into her son, possibly with Ares as his father; this version of him was imported to Rome, where he came known as Cupid. Himeros, god of sexual desire and unrequited love. Hedylogos, god of sweet talk and flattery ...

  6. Unconditional love - Wikipedia

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    The highest spiritual attainment in Islam is related to the love of God. "Yet there are men who take (for worship) others besides God, as equal (with God): They love them as they should love God. But those of Faith are overflowing in their love for God." [14] O lovers! The religion of the love of God is not found in Islam alone.

  7. Soulmate - Wikipedia

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    Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature. Each of us, then, is a ‘matching half’ of a human whole…and each of us is always seeking the half that matches him.

  8. What Does It Mean to Be Aromantic? - AOL

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    Here, we explore everything you need to know about what it means to be aromantic.

  9. Diotima of Mantinea - Wikipedia

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    In Plato's Symposium the members of a party discuss the meaning of love. Socrates says that in his youth he was taught "the philosophy of love" by Diotima, a prophetess who successfully postponed the Plague of Athens. In an account that Socrates recounts at the symposium, Diotima says that Socrates has confused the idea of love with the idea of ...