Enjoy, Comprehend, Love. Entering the Spaces of Conscious Love. Yury Tomin
the beauty of the boy <…> the soul is carried away and receives warmth, feels relief from grief and rejoices.’ What Plato said about Eros in Phaedrus is such a fullness of feeling and aspiration of human nature that we can directly cross out this annoying boy and say with force: a woman.”
In the Symposium Plato reveals in the image of the god of love Eros his manifestations in people. What divine possibilities does love bestow on people and what are the requirements of Eros, which must meet high love? First, love endows people with valor and grants them bliss during life and after death (the return of souls from Hades). Secondly, of the two Eros, one must follow the Eros of heavenly Aphrodite, love the soul more than the body, love for high moral dignity, and both lovers take care of their moral perfection. Thirdly, Eros is spread throughout nature, and in order to achieve harmony in any business, you need to follow reasonable Eros. Fourth, in love, the integrity of a human being is achieved, possessing strength and power comparable to the gods. Fifth, Eros, and therefore a person in love, is always young, handsome, gentle, reasonable, fair, brave, wise, a master in arts and crafts. But these five sides of Eros, revealed in the speeches of the participants of the Symposium
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