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Except that all relationships in his ideal society are subordinate to the state. You've missed the fact that the Republic rejects art, including a loathing of poets and how they and theatre challenge assumption and authority. So a larger inclusion of Plato's actual thought in the quote you've chosen is that love to him is ultimately something to be eliminated, and as such is why he's known as a Fascist. Platonic love is nothing but cold indifference for prioritising everything but love. He did not desire a loving society, and if love coukd heal the wound of the human condition, that it had to be kept at bay, so the state could insinuate itself in the place of love. No responsibly ethical approach to life or philosophy would recommend to anyone that they build their personal relationships around plato. You're sabotaging people.
I really like this concept of a soulmate. When you have found your soulmate, you love the soul instead of the body, you have love for knowledge and for love itself.
Friendship as a basis for romantic love is something that one would consider a common sense concept, but is often rejected by some (or ar least not welcomed).
@@Yararar other than that what I said prior, I wanted to give a more comprehensive thought to it (because there are many people who say the same thing) You cannot classify illness based on what it makes you do, if that is the case literally everything is. Knowledge is an illness because it gives you ideas and those ideas makes you do bad things, eating or hunger is an illness because it makes you fight for food, being an introvert is an illness because it makes you anti-social and weird (for lack of a better word) and etc. Consequences doesn't make the action good or bad/illness or normal. Like think about it, I am assuming you don't have a partner/girlfriend/boyfriend but if you did would you actually die for them? Well you don't need to consider this scenario for a partner only but apply this to Friends or Family or pets or a job that you love, like you love them but would you seriously die or kill yourself for them? Or do "crazy things" (like you implied) for them? No obviously! Everybody says that but how many actually do it? Not so many actually but we like to think about it because it gives the impression that you care for them and that is why it's so prevalent in media, it is prevalent in movies as acts of honour. But in actuality...those things are pretty rare...
Well this is great advice because i tend to rush into relationships and either scare the girl away or lower my standards and be unhappy myself :D thanks :)
Thank you so much for this beautiful explanation of the love between souls. The real love that's beyond physical appearance or material things. This is really a mindset for true wisdom. May all us connect to our divine and true soul mates 🙏💖
For many years I thought I was happier and more complete and content being single, until i met him. As time passes by, spending time with him is bringing my level of happiness and completeness to another level than what I have ever experienced. I don’t know what will the future take me, but I just watched this video and came to an epiphany. I will let you guys know what happened after 😉~
The soulmate complements you - not compliments. The difference is important: to compliment is to praise, which is not what Plato means at all. He means they harmonise with you, complete you. I hope that doesn't sound pedantic.
And yet there is so much suffering in the world due to society's idea of what love "should" be like and the old destructive ideas most people have of having law get involved with love. Following conditioned beliefs that are not questioned by most and imply 'rules' can be harmful to our well being. Love is subjective and relative to each couple, the younger generations are realizing that and are drawing away from past distorted beliefs of love. One cannot read a book on how to love, for that is like reading a book on how to live (of course there are helpful external reasources such as books but)..your individual consciousness and experience will truly bring that to you as you progress onwards towards the unending journey of life.
True pure n simple love is sparks in the heart you feel that love in every fiber of the heart All or None Law in the medical terms then with conscious rational awareness and concrete actions you nourish and care for it! Buddha said that when You like a flower you plucked it but when you love a flower you nurture and take care of it!
Plato got it from his Teacher Mentor Socrates the idea how to find your soulmate, first and foremost is to Know Thyself and that soulmate will go and be attracted to your aura to your vibration youll will have merging intricate wavelengths k!
It was identified that the androgynous two faced, four armed, red beings were not gaining control of their emotions. They were only controlling their environment. Living their lives without fear and not understanding how to react to fear. "A change was in order and nothing was lost," said Zeus. While the emotion of anger got the best of Prometheus. How do you deal with your fear?
Having same birth marks means soul are connected? I have a coin shaped birthmark and I met someone who has the same mark and exactly at same location. Never met anyone with same birthmark and in a random country, met someone. I checked online and it says they are out soulmates. This person although a different nationality but seems to be the most genuine person I ever met in my life. He is in committed relationship with child so I am not trying to form any relationship but wanted to know if there is soul connection with him from my past life? Somehow I am drawn to this person (he is good looking and fit but I have some across many good looking guys and I am not drawn to people who look good but with whom I can connect) I am just super worried that he might be my soul mates but I want him to be happy in his current relationship especially as it’s with a child! But I know there is a reason he came into my life immediately after my divorce!! And also after divorce, I decided I will wait for soulmate and won’t settle for anything else so after watching this video, I realised this person came into my life because I was looking for my soulmate but my soulmate is already committed 😂
"A soulmate should first be a friend, then a lover..." (7:24). Seems logical and that is a philosophy I have always adopted throughout my life. However,... girls, women do not agree with this train of thought. There have been times when I've been told: "I like but only as a friend" or "I don't want to ruin our friendship" and you know what? that's fine. It was not meant to be. I don't think that every time one is wooing a person, one is looking for their soulmate; but you never know when they show up. Your soulmate could be that person you didn't want to ruin your friendship with. I have seen friends of mine end up with persons who don't take them into consideration; they become second thoughts. Their choice. (7:24) has a nice philosophy, but part of 1/2 of humanity "doesn't want to ruin friendship". Never understood that.
I did meet my soulmate. and then he betrayed me? what's the point of meeting your soulmate if you're going to lose him - or he never felt what you did? don't get the point at all anymore
Soulmates don’t betray each other. It’s obvious he’s not your soulmate. Sounds like you’re betraying yourself when you call this guy your soulmate. Put the energy back on yourself (forget about this guy) make your own life fulfilling and eventually you’ll meet a real soulmate. But it all starts with how you treat and feel about yourself.
The problem I have with this video is I have serious doubts about which parts are truly based on Plato his work and which parts are made up interpretations of this channel.
Your soul mate is your twin flame. They missed out a lot more traits you would have with your other soul. If you are with your soul mate you would know all the other things that Uno about each other. Families can go through generations before finding the soul mate which then ,breaks the curse if you could say that word. Shit, I'm a poet and I don't even know it.
if you watch this video listen to every word of it because it's all true. I found my soulmate five years ago and as I watched this video I realized that I went through every step that is explained in this video. Especially the part that says you don't want to ever be apart. I never knew a true love like I did when I met my best friend, my partner, my husband, MY SOULMATE!!!
The advice that Plato gives is no doubt very helpful and useful. However, the notion of there being 'the one' seems more like a wishful fantasy than something real. Even the idea is based on mythology. In any case, it is important to ensure that you and your partner are compatible and you should definitely, under no circumstances, settle for a toxic partner. But you should also have realistic expectations of what real people are like and not have astronomically high standards.
Sadly, there's a point none seems willing to touch about all this: _Not everyone has what it takes to become someone's soulmate._ Genetically, philosophically, abstractally... pick your point of view; it remains a fact not everyone has what it takes. Or even more sadly: If there _is_ someone out there for everyone, there's too the chance that one passed away before meeting with their second.
The whole point is that "the one" becomes "the one" only after you've changed and improved yourself, so that you may earn their love. "The one" is a concept, not a specific individual person. If you want to find love you should first aim to make yourself capable of loving and capable of being loved. It's not about physically finding a single individual person among the whole human population that is "destined" for you. It's about transforming yourself first. When you do that, you will see there is a huge number of potential people who could become your "one".
The idea of a soulmate is fanciful, idealistically romanticized and delusional. You only see what a partnership is made of when life gets very hard. Are you better together or better apart. And, at the end of the day you are responsible for your own happiness. The soulmate idea is a dangerous concept in that it claims you will be fulfilled once your other is found and this diminishes personal responsibility to your happiness.
I had found a girl i felt true love with. We were together for almost a year but it ended because she had some priorities other than me, and i was too immature to understand, and to see things from her perspective
I am great admirer of Plato....I don't think any one apart from him constantly relevant for thinkers for past 2400 years. Kudos to great trio... .. Socrates Plato &Aristotle. If you don't believe in Plato then the end point is Emile Cioran 🙂
@@azizharrington1304 And then having a family and dumping your man 10 years later, breaking up the family cause "you want to be happy"? Ha ha. It's the irony of human life: there are no guarantees. All options have pros and cons, your example and R C's being the two common opposites. The difference in modern times in the Western world is that it's mostly women breaking up families (70-80% of the time) but we're somehow not supposed to mention it. As a man, it's sadly makes less and less sense to invest in something that can end at anytime and be penalized for it. Women are less happy than ever, on pills, families broken but hey, hurray for feminism LOL
I just don’t like the idea of someone complementing you perfectly because it denies the journey of growth and then does a person complement the highest self perfectly or the self as it comes??? and I don’t think a healthy partnership even with a soulmate is going to occur if you haven’t done a lot of personal healing and growth
I know it sounds silly but this video may have changed my life. Everything in it addresses things I'm going through right now in life. I believe in soul mates. I'm not sure if that will ever happen for me but I guess I'll find out in time. Thank you for the video.
The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left"*
Interesting, most people don't understand the market moves and tend to be mislead in facts like this and always depend on Money in the Bank very bad idea
I will take this with a grain of salt. How about people that are happy by themselves, alone, and they already feel at home? If you are happy, what more can another person bring to the table, that hapinness cannot grow much more because you are already happy. I am not against this school of thought, but again, realistically speaking, for me at least, a soulmate is not that wow. Or at least is very unlikely to find. I know i am the exception, because i do not seek love as a mandatory thing, where almost everyone else does.
Just think You feel happy being alone. Now soul mate is the one who is compatible with you.. now think both of you being happy sharing that lonliness. Thats the gist of soulmate in my point of view.
@@andipajeroking exactly my friend. Thats why it is called soulmate hard to find but once found there is no any drawbacks. Hope you find one. God bless you😊
Then there's this question...are you really happy if you don't have anyone to share your happiness with? Happiness multiplies when you share... Becomes dull when you don't.
@@kittyblossom7342 Yes, you are correct. 1 year later, now that I found my soulmate, life has become from content and happy to ecstatic 😁. I have been happy all those years single, but something was missing. Now I am complete 😚
True love is time less can not be bought and makes a person able to do things others only dream of a unbelievable power that can build and conquer many goals with a limit less energy this is why waiting and finding the person that gives you that incredible feeling is so devine
Wow! I must be a genius myself because that's pretty much the definition I have about a soulmate and I'm no relationship expert. Although I probably won't meet mine, if I do, I wouldn't know what to do really.
Thanks for the great video. Just one thing, if we're referring to romantic love, even though at the "bottom of the ladder" physical attraction is necessary. It is not the most important thing, of course, but it is necessary, otherwise that love becomes simply a friendship and nothing more, and two people in a romantic relationship who are "just friends" don't really work well together since we do have basic needs for physical intimacy and connection that can't be glossed over.
I really had sexual attraction towards an actor in our region in recent times, it's like a romantic crush that i had nearly after several years, I was overwhelmed with this attraction. He got a great sex appeal, though he present himself like a very simple man. I know it's an unattainable crush, but still i feel disappointed for not able to explore my sexuality with him. I feel very disappointed.
Hey..I didn't knew, Plato had been watching Hollywood movies...Haahahahahahaha.. There is a mention about it, shows you have thrown your philosophy along with Plato's. What's the percentage ?
