Look I know academics saying embarrassing things about "eros" or "erotics" in public is easy to dunk on and there's a time honored tradition of doing so But you all know that it makes you look ignorant, right, and not just of PoMo 20th century "queer theory" shit
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Anyway because of this obviously philia is a person-to-person thing and eros doesn't have to be Plato was the one who wrote about eros and he said that its lowest form was sexual attraction to another person but in its highest form it's a pure reaction to "beauty"
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CS Lewis said he thought of philia as "side-by-side love" and eros as "face-to-face" Philia is when you see someone else in your life as your teammate, as someone playing the same game as you Eros is when another person is the goalpost, or the ball
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I mean, arguably that is not selfishness. If one is to love their neighbour equally as much as themselves, then it means that one must also value themselves. (Not that I live up to that, but that's the result of trauma I guess)
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Can I introduce you to BTS' entire 2018-2019 album concept and UNICEF campaign under the name "Love Yourself"? Or "Love your neighbor as yourself" as requiring self-love first?
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