The Ideal Love: Platonic or Frommian?
- In this paper, I compare two theories of ideal love, the Platonic and Frommian, and argue that they give opposite advices to lovers in practice. While Plato emphasizes >whom to love< and urges one to continuously look for a better beloved, Erich Fromm emphasizes >how to love< and urges one to grow and change with one’s imperfect lover. Using the movie >Her< as an example, I explain why an ideal love is extremely difficult to attain under the guidance of the Platonic and Frommian ideals. In an imperfect love, to leave or to stay seems to be a question with no simple answer.
MetadatenAuthor: | Muk-Yan Wong |
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Parent Title (English): | Dialogue and Universalism, Vol. 27, No. 4 (2017), pp. 137-146. [Online ISSN 1689-3816] [doi.org/10.5840/du201727470] |
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Document Type: | Articles |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first Publication: | 2017 |
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Release Date: | 2024/04/04 |
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Format: | to purchase via publisher |
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IdNo: | Wong_Muk-Yan_2017 |
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Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature): | Articles / Artikel |
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Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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