What does platonic love mean?
Platonic love generally refers to spiritual love without physical contact. But in fact, Plato does not exclude the physical desire for love. Platonic love is not what people usually think, but has different connotations. The so-called "platonic love" is related to the fact that the real world is born from the heart, and the material individual is only the projection of ideas in the heart. If you fall in love with a beautiful woman or a beautiful flower, then from your highest ideology, you are actually in love with a beautiful idea, not a beautiful entity. Then, it is not difficult to explain the meaning of "Platonic love". In this love relationship, two people only imagine each other as inner beauty, so they can need and appreciate each other spiritually. However, they don't need real love, and they don't need to have sex with each other. The so-called love object is just a symbol, a symbol. After all, such people are in love with themselves and their own ideas. To give a very common example, many people regard their first love as the best memory, and they will never forget it even if they are separated for many years. This is the most typical "spiritual love". Maybe they are really with their first love, maybe their living conditions are not good now, but their inner memories tell them that everything in their first love is beautiful, so their consciousness beautifies this memory. If they really fall in love for the second time, there will be a certain degree of "Platonic love" in each of us. Before developing a relationship, we must have a general analysis and judgment of ourselves, so that we can go more smoothly in the emotional world, otherwise it will only be "the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment."