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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.
Aristotle by contrast placed more emphasis on philia (friendship, affection) than on eros (love); [8] and the relationship of friendship and love would continue to be played out into and through the Renaissance, [9] with Cicero for the Latins pointing out that "it is love (amor) from which the word 'friendship' (amicitia) is derived" [10 ...
Head of Plato, Roman copy.The original was exhibited at the Academy after the death of the philosopher (348/347 BC).. Platonism is the philosophy of Plato and philosophical systems closely derived from it, though contemporary Platonists do not necessarily accept all doctrines of Plato. [1]
Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, [1] and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emotions.
Middle Platonism is the modern name given to a stage in the development of Platonic philosophy, lasting from about 90 BC – when Antiochus of Ascalon rejected the scepticism of the new Academy – until the development of neoplatonism under Plotinus in the 3rd century.
Unrequited love or one-sided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such by the beloved. The beloved may not be aware of the admirer's deep affection, or may consciously reject it knowing that the admirer admires them.
Gaetano Fedele Polidori (5 August 1763 – 16 December 1853) was an Italian writer and scholar living in Highgate.He was the son of Agostino Ansano Polidori (1714–1778), a physician and poet who lived and practised in his native Bientina, near Pisa, Tuscany.
The book sold 8,500 copies in its first year, four times what the publisher expected. [5] The following year it sold 17,000, and two years later, 137,000. [5] As of 2013 it had spent 297 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.