Why do we want to be good? | Ece Temelkuran, Alison Milbank, Peter Sjöstedt-H
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is Erotic a Good Thing?
Erotic is desire. It is our senseless human beings. Eros in the symposium by plato is this kind of shabby figure. And christianity has embraced the erotic. But it believes that god's love is without lack. Our love is lacking, but that this can be channelled and directed and used for good. We move from the individual desire unto love things as we love things. We care for them. We want justice. That's how sat before i askd us to comin,. could i ask you, alison, just you use the word erotic in quite a technical sense? then i think i suspect that, like myself, other reviewers may
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