The eros-driven soul produces beautiful things and, above all, beautiful actions, which have a universal value. — The Agony of Eros#^ref-19225

definition

• Divine Beauty

• Transcendental fidelity

• Truth

• Rapture

• Interrupting the Same with the Other

• Negativity of rupture

• Upheaval of worldview through moments of truth

• Enlightenment

• The purpose of eros is to mend human nature by achieving unity; it guides the soul

  • Community feeling

notes

Plato's view

• Vulgar vs. Divine Eros (now known as platonic love)
• Ladder of Love
  • From the carnal to the ethereal
    • Body → essence
  • Union of beauty with Being, no longer connected to the body

thoughts

• The Other as another human being is simply a vehicle through which eros can be most easily experienced
  • The Other can be friends, lovers, others, or gods
  • The telos of life is beauty and contemplation
    • Modern society lacks both due to its rejection of negativity and friction
      • So it falls into a chaos of unstructured entropy, leading to its disenchantment

references

• The Agony of Eros