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| | Plato on Friendship and Eros (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) |
 | | Loving boys correctly, after all, is — in part at least — just a matter of knowing how to talk to them, of how to persuade them to love you back. |
 | | For, according to it, love is really “two things”: good Uranian love, whose object is the soul, and whose aim is to instill virtue in the younger male; and bad Pandemotic love, whose object is the body and whose aim is sexual pleasure for the older lover (180c1-d7). |
 | | Loving Socrates, we may infer, is a complex business, since just what someone loves in loving him is tied to that person's peculiar desires, and the limits they impose on how like Socrates he can become. |
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