All is eros

The claim «all is eros» seems exaggerated, unless it expresses the idea that our human gaze upon reality is profoundly erotic. It is in that sense this article takes the claim seriously, first by explaining that it fits with how the founders of Western thought looked at it. More precisely was it no one less than Plato who defined «thinking» as profoundly «erotic». What makes us think — i.e. the «drive» of our thought — is eros. The desire for the beloved is basically no other than the one for truth. It is truth itself that makes our desire longing for it, and that desire is at work even in the «lowest» erotic feeling. In other words, thinking is sublimated eros. Thus platonic philosophy, including its persistence in contemporary theory.