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en-wikipedia-org-2849		Platonic love - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3169	473	66	Platonic love as devised by Plato concerns rising through levels of closeness to wisdom and true beauty from carnal attraction to individual bodies to attraction to souls, and eventually, union with the truth. Plato's Symposium defines two extremes in the process of platonic love; the entirely carnal and the entirely ethereal. Though Plato's discussions of love originally centered on relationships which were sexual and between members of the same sex, scholar Todd Reeser studies how the meaning of platonic love in Plato's original sense underwent a transformation during the Renaissance, leading to the contemporary sense of nonsexual heterosexual love.[7] It is derived from the concept in Plato's Symposium of the love of the idea of good which lies at the root of all virtue and truth. Seven types of love[edit] Setting Plato Straight: Translating Platonic Sexuality in the Renaissance. T. Reeser, Setting Plato Straight: Translating Platonic Sexuality in the Renaissance.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2849.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2849.txt