u/Historical_Party8242

Its 8pm and ive decided to study until 4 am and sleep until 12. Classes are done as it is exam season so it is not a problem. Ive decided to do these late nights and such ( Not the day before an exam) because im at res and I can't focus in the day.

Ive missed so much class and even assignments so getting a good mark is a must. Ill return to normal sleep second semester and go to class. This situation requires this.

Numbly I walk in this moonlight arc awaiting a dove.

Ascending from the rain with a branch filled with love.

Yet the man is cautious longing to care for the dove.

Love is caring when the wings have been cut with life.

Ever slowly the man falls in love with his wife.

Naturally the man embraces sap of the branch,

Evicting the sorrow and the cold

Now the wound on his soul has lost this fight,

Out of the somber slums of life there comes a Dove

Carrying an olive branch filled with Love.

The leaves are now healthy and green clear of Decay..

The man can grow his garden freed from this dark Arc

Firstly, I believe Plato makes love a ladder, but I believe it is more like a video game character improving his stats ( lazy metaphor, but I can not find a better one). It is not stages for me but categories. It would look like :

Romantic love.

I agree that common love is bad and that the love of the soul should be higher. But it ends at loving another person for their virtue and their affect in your life

Love for humanity.

This is where the love for civilization comes in. There is a love for virtuous ways of life. Virtuous systems that help people. Virtuous laws, etc.

Love for knowledge.

A mathematician loves his work and math. A philosopher finds an idea beautiful

There could be many more categories, but I believe it covers the steps. One person may love mathematics but be so cold emotionally. Am I wrong here ?

I'm not that well educated on him, but there has this been a big movement that looksmaxing is herd behavior. I know he said he had the mustache because it was a popular military look, and this made him look better to strangers.

If trying to look good to people by going for certain hairstyles is herd behavior, then why did he grow it? He certainly also dressed well, or he would've worn rags and not what the average male would have worn. If he was so against this herd mentality, why put so much effort in to look good for this herd he was so agaisnt ? Again, I am far away from a nietzsche scholar and just curious