HUMA 1951 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Libido, Homosociality, One True
27 Mar 2018
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Forms of love - an historical overview: greeks, eros - sexual passion - body - wild, controllable, destructive. Sex for procreation with wives: categories: active/penetrator, passive/penetrated, platonic or intellectual - meeting of minds - male, man/boy homoeroticism, women, aphrodite (venus) goddess of fertility and sex/prostitution. Married around 14 to man of about 30. Split into (1) demeter - fertility and (1) aphrodite - sex, i. e. good. Intercrural girl and bad girl : medieval, agape - augustine - spiritual love (god for man), modeled on greek. Diotima of mantinea (historically problematic that socrates has a female teacher) Socrates, 470bc 399bc moral philosopher (philosophy faithfulness to or love (philos) of wisdom (sophia)) Love is a great spirit between god and man. Physical love"s creativity is to produce children. Love born of poverty and contrivance, neither mortal or immortal. Lovers seek the other half of themselves. Its progeny is wisdom and virtue in general .
