what is platonic love?
rational, spiritually pure love.
Philosophers' love and emotional life are generally unhappy, and many philosophers even prefer to be single.
Love is a wonderful feeling, the spiritual pillar in life, romantic, warm, gentle, sweet and happy.
Love is not to attach too many things to it, such as morality, responsibility, obligation, etc. Those things do not belong to love, but to marriage. The essence of love is spiritual. Without material support, everything is illusory. It's beyond our reach.
Wang Yangming's theory of mind
has no body that is good and disgusting,
has actions that are good and malicious,
knowing the good and knowing the evil is a conscience, and
getting rid of the evil for the good is a thing.
Conscience is the noumenon of the mind. Without good or evil, it is a sheltered mind without selfish desires, and it is a natural principle. Before it is made, it is neither good nor evil, and it is also the realm we pursue. It is "before it is made", so it is impossible to distinguish good from evil. When people have thoughts and activities, they add this kind of thoughts to things, and this kind of thoughts will have the difference between likes and dislikes, good and evil. It can be said that it has been "developed", and things will be neutralized and missed, that is, they are in line with heaven and justice, and those who are in the middle are good and those who are not in the middle are evil; Although there is no good or evil in conscience, it knows good and evil freely, which is the ontology of knowledge; All knowledge and cultivation come down to one point, that is, to eliminate evil for good, that is, to act according to one's own conscience as the standard.
no good and no evil is a sheltered mind without selfish desires, which is a natural principle. In the absence of it, there is no good and no evil, and it is also the realm we pursue.
But sometimes people make mistakes in their judgment, that is, they make mistakes in their will, that is, they can't correctly distinguish good from evil, treat evil as good, and treat good as evil, so their conscience will also make mistakes, and their attitude will go astray. Why is this happening?
because at this time, the heart has been covered by selfishness and material desires, which is not natural. At this time, it is necessary to seek for yourself.
Try to make your heart return to a state of no good and no evil.
Only when we return to the state of no good and no evil can we have a correct conscience and correct attitude.