Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)“The unreasoning desire that overpowers a person’s considered impulse to do right and is driven to take pleasure in beauty, its force reinforced by its kindred desires for beauty in human bodies — this desire, all-conquering in its forceful drive, takes its name from the word for force (rhome) and is called eros.”
— Plato, Phaedrus
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