Like any sane person, he recognizes the benefits of civilization's restraint of sexual desire (and particularly male sexual desire); he just thinks every marriage should be a miniature civilization unto itself, constraining eros in a web of rules and regulations that are particular to the couple in question.
As Benedict XVI points out in Deus Caritas Est, eros is most fully itself when governed by agape".
The book returns to philosophy in the final part, plumbing several Platonic dialogues the Republic, Cleitophon, Hipparchus, Phaedrus, Euthyphro, and Symposium to understand the soul's imperfection in relation to law, justice, tyranny, eros, the gods, and philosophy itself.
Designed as an orbiting craft, not a lander, the spacecraft nonetheless was able to use the last of its fuel to lower itself to the surface of Eros on Feb. 12 and to survive.
The world is a huge sea of religious longing, founded in nature itself, and rooted in the infinite eros of inquiry.
The corridors of the Palace of Justice itself are paced by an image of Eros — a dog, marbled in black and white, its jowls quivering, its haunches swaying in time to the slow and steady pulse of its infatuation as it follows its master, a Viennese interpreter, who carries off the situation with the gay complacence of a Schnitzler hero.
It disturbed him that eros appeared to float so freely, so lavishly, and to attach itself at random.
DOMESTIC LIFE about the eros of parenthood (an upswelling of tenderness, often with a tinge of amazement, that expresses itself primarily through touch) which vastly differs from child pornography and sexual abuse.
It… DOMESTIC LIFE about the eros of parenthood (an upswelling of tenderness, often with a tinge of amazement, that expresses itself primarily through touch) which vastly… PERSONAL HISTORY about the author's ordeal of moving from Rochester, New York, to Sonoma, California.
