Plato is a western philosopher, he put forward a kind of human and human spiritual love love concept. Later generations called such a love Platonic love, the next let me take you to understand the Platonic love in the end is what it means.

I. What does Platonic love mean

1. Ideal concept of love (such as very romantic or simply impossible love)

2. Purely spiritual rather than physical love.

3. the concept of love between men and women as equals.

In essence, Platonic love is love based on the standard of "beauty", advocating the realization of spiritual integration and ignoring physical communication.

In the "Book of Drinking", Plato expresses an important idea: the ideal state between male lovers is the exchange of knowledge and virtue.

In Sparta, if men were too eager to enjoy themselves, they faced punishment in the form of banishment or blood sacrifice. Since women were usually less educated and men more so, gender was not considered the first factor, and Ancient Greek men considered women to be mere instruments of procreation and not worth talking to. As women were discriminated against, they were not able to communicate and balance their ideologies, thus creating a good communication atmosphere between men and women in Ancient Greece. This idea of advocating male love was based on the idea that women could not communicate equally. Its essence is the ideological value of contempt for women.

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In the ancient Greek period, men were fond of women, but they preferred men. This is particularly evident in Plato's view of love, where the love he discusses is basically the affection between men, which is homosexuality. Primarily, this refers to the love between adult men and teenage men, which was popular among the aristocracy of ancient Greece at the time, where adult men fell in love with beautiful young men. In Plato's view, the most sublime love is spiritual love, possessing the power to raise the soul. But this noble and precious love, according to Plato, was limited to the same sex.

So Platonic love, in the beginning, did not mean spiritual love in general. Rather, it was supposed to be same-sex love, and to eschew desire for sex.