Sentences with phrase «platonic eros»

In his analysis, he found in Whitehead a concept of divine love which lies in contrast to New Testament agape and medieval amicitia and which identifies with Platonic eros.

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Whitehead has chosen to couch his whole philosophical discussion in the book in Platonic terms and to adopt «Eros» as the term for the primordial nature of God.

And without that moment, we risk lapsing back into Rorty's debased and dreary irony, as eros loses its Platonic character as a desire for wholeness and transcendence.

In Platonic philosophy eros meant the yearning of the soul for the realm of the divine.