{"id":20361,"date":"2022-10-03T20:05:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T00:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=20361"},"modified":"2022-10-04T20:09:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T00:09:09","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-romantic-and-platonic-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/10\/03\/what-is-the-difference-between-romantic-and-platonic-love\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between romantic and platonic love?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_5162.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_5162.jpg\" alt=\"What is the difference between romantic and platonic love?\" class=\"wp-image-20353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_5162.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_5162-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>What is the difference between romantic and platonic love?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Greeks had many different words for love, such as ag\u00e1pe (and love of god for man &amp; vice versa, and &#8220;to will the good of another&#8221; &#8211;Aquinas), \u00e9ros (romantic, sexual love), philia (affectionate regard between equals, such as friends), and xenia (hospitality for guests and foreigners), among others. Platonic could be just about any of these except \u00e9ros, but most likely philia. For more info on philia read Plato&#8217;s Nicomachean Ethics. O&#8217;Neill Library 5th floor at B430.A5 O7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greeks had many different words for love, such as ag\u00e1pe (and love of god for man &amp; vice versa, and &#8220;to will the good of another&#8221; &#8211;Aquinas), \u00e9ros (romantic, sexual love), philia (affectionate regard between equals, such as friends), and xenia (hospitality for guests and foreigners), among others. Platonic could be just about any &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/10\/03\/what-is-the-difference-between-romantic-and-platonic-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the difference between romantic and platonic love?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20382,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361\/revisions\/20382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}