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Kelsen, Hans. Platonic Love.
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1. Kelsen, Hans. Platonic Love.—This is a 110 page article. There is an extensive footnote bibliography. The Platonic life-line was fundamentally conditioned by the Platonic Eros. Plato had a soul shaken by the most powerful affects, in which allied to Eros was an unsuppressible will to power. His purpose was education and the state and the that of the Good. The pedagogic-political accomplishments of Plato spring from the source of his Eros. The Platonic Eros is the love between beings of the same sex, in particular, it is the compulsion which drives man to men and which in the world of antiquity in certain circles was disseminated as love of youth. The normal has no legitimate reason to abominate the abnormal. The homosexual Eros and Plato's personality are described. Plato sees in the masculine principle the good, and in the feminine the evil. The first of mankind is masculine. The existence of women is punishment for the sins of the men. Only in women is the sexual urge for the procreation of children. Plato did not understand motherhood. Plato sublimated his Eros because it was in conflict with the moral and legal views of his time. In his pessimism for this world and his optimism