My writing tutor says my writing engenders in him a kinf of Platonic love for me. Wasn't Plato a b um boy? What is he suggesting?
2006-08-03 01:27:41 · 9 answers · asked by Harriet 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
He wants to get inside your panties.
2006-08-03 02:19:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Platonic love for someone is love without attraction, like if you have a best mate of the opposite sex that you don't want to go out with. The Greeks had 4 different words for love: agape (general affection - for an object or something similar), eros (passionate love, attraction) Philia (loyalty between friends and family, not passionate) and storge (natural affection, eg mother and child). Plato felt that physical attraction had nothing to do with love, hence the term platonic - without physical attraction.
2006-08-03 02:26:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Platonic love is not a sexual type of love. Plato has Socrates speaking in his "Dialogues". We cannot be certain what Socrates said and what Plato said by putting his own words into Socrates' mouth. Homosexuality was accepted. Socrates and Alcibiades were lovers, and Socrates was also married to Xanthippe. Platonic love is not homosexual or heterosexual. It is asexual.
2006-08-03 02:05:53 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Platonic love was a deep fondness for someone not driven by sexual desire. We owe a lot to the Greek philosophers so how about a bit of RESPECT?
2006-08-03 01:41:40 · answer #4 · answered by lykovetos 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Platonic love is a love without sex. It's kind of like a deep friendship. Is that what you're asking? I'm sorry if it's not, I'm tired. Woo.
2006-08-03 01:43:05 · answer #5 · answered by Steph 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Platonic love is a non sexual love: for example the love a parent has for their child or a sister has for a brother.
2006-08-03 01:42:37 · answer #6 · answered by martyn d 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a friendship kind of love, based on a meeting of the minds.
If he means it, there's nothing wrong, and as your tutor he may just be stretching your thinking. But I'd be cautious for a bit, and if he takes this farther, or you have doubts as to his feelings towards you, then I'd take it to my parents.
2006-08-03 03:26:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are speaking of philia, a type of love
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philia
there is also agape and eros
the greeks were very deep, and right on- love has many aspects
2006-08-03 02:29:43 · answer #8 · answered by zentrinity 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sexless love is what he is suggesting - also known as friendship. Or, at least, one would hope so....
2006-08-04 02:17:10 · answer #9 · answered by Sun is Shining ❂ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋