. . . I often wonder where Heavenly Kindness resides inside our restless heart. Kindness poured out to others is not meant to create a kind world, it is meant to allow someone else to feel the power of kindness and then to practice being kind to others.
Did Plato think eros changed forms? For example, a love of other human souls, is that phileo, fraternal love? Or a love of knowledge, we call that philo-sophia. Is that still eros. And is Beauty at the top agape?
. . . I often wonder where Heavenly Kindness resides inside our restless heart. Kindness poured out to others is not meant to create a kind world, it is meant to allow someone else to feel the power of kindness and then to practice being kind to others.
Indeed! Though we can’t “fix the world,” we can always will the Good onto another.
Suggesting that ethical responsibility starts with how you treat the specific people right in front of you.
Did Plato think eros changed forms? For example, a love of other human souls, is that phileo, fraternal love? Or a love of knowledge, we call that philo-sophia. Is that still eros. And is Beauty at the top agape?