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en-wikipedia-org-6614		Greek words for love - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1444	237	69	Greek words for love Wikipedia Greek words for love Ancient Greek philosophy differentiates main conceptual forms and distinct words for the Modern English word love: agápe, éros, philía, philautia, storgē, and xenia. In the Symposium, the most famous ancient work on the subject, Plato has Socrates argue that eros helps the soul recall knowledge of beauty, and contributes to an understanding of spiritual truth, the ideal Form of youthful beauty that leads us humans to feel erotic desire – thus suggesting that even that sensually based love aspires to the non-corporeal, spiritual plane of existence; that is, finding its truth, just like finding any truth, leads to transcendence.[7] Lovers and philosophers are all inspired to seek truth through the means of eros. Philautia (Greek: φιλαυτία, romanized: philautía) means "self-love". Greek love Greek word study on Love. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greek_words_for_love&oldid=990829310" Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6614.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6614.txt