girlsack:Sternberg’s triangular theory of lovereblogging this because it seems to have some rele
girlsack: Sternberg’s triangular theory of love reblogging this because it seems to have some relevance to Plato's Symposium, about which I had a lengthy discussion with someone the other day. The Symposium (which means “after-dinner drinking party”) is one of Plato’s most famous dialogues ( a ‘dialogue’ is a form of philosophical writing in which major ideas are presented through a dialogue between or among the characters, real or fictional). Socrates and several of his contemporaries are drinking after dinner and taking turns telling stories - which are really more like speeches- about love. The speeches of Aristophanes, Alcibiades, and Socrates himself (who claims that he was taught about love by a wise woman named Diotima) provide particularly interesting ancient Greek perspectives on love and sexuality. Socrates’ speech about love provides the first definition of “Platonic” love. -- source link