Plato-Platonic Love

Platonic love is defined as love conceived by Plato as ascending from passion for the individual to contemplation of the universal and ideal or a close relationship between two persons in which sexual desire is nonexistent or has been suppressed or sublimated. In Symposium, Plato discusses various types of love through the dialogue of his speakers, and it is through this that we are able to go beyond a simple definition and truly understand the …

…t need anything else than to be around them and have their companionship and support. This to many is not as important a type of love, especially for college students, for it lacks a physical element. Yet in the greater view of life, it is the most important and the most lasting type of love that can exist. Thus it is far greater and more difficult a love than that of the physical playful type.