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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

contrasting Biblical and Greek views of love (Bloom)

Allan Bloom, in his commentary The Ladder of Love on Plato's Symposium, writes the following.  It is a fascinating compare/contrast between a Biblical/Jewish understanding of "eros or love in the life of man."  I must wonder how this is reflected today in the changing mores of our culture, as we lose the foundation of Judeo-Christian worldview on which the United States was founded, and slide into a post-modern, post-Christian, individualist worldview.

From Plato's Symposium. University of Chicago Press. 1993, 2001.


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