DO AMOR PLATÔNICO AO CRUSH: A FILOSOFIA ENTRE ADOLESCENTES

Abstract

The article demonstrates the possible equivalence relationship between
platonic love and the meaning of the commonly used slang crush among teenagers.
Nonetheless, the equivalence proved to be false, since the object of Platonic Love,
according to the understanding presented of Plato's Symposium, differs from the object of
desire expressed in the mark crush. However, despite differing in the end, the crush is
likely to be understood as the initial step in the ascending process in relation to true love.
It is based on crush in its correlation with the contemporary social and cultural context,
in this end, it uses authors like Pierre Lévy, Ernst Cassirer, Zygmunt Bauman and Alasdair
MacIntyre, juxtaposing, whenever possible and necessary, to determinant aspects of the
Platonic philosophy in correspondence to the proposed theme. In addition to having a
brief introduction and final considerations, a single section was chosen, contributing to
the qualitative study of the theme. In addition, the study reaffirms the usefulness of
philosophy as consisting of highly contributory knowledge in rigorous, critical and plural
thinking about the different expressions that characterize the contemporary way of being,
particularly in relation to the way of being of the young adolescent immersed in a world
increasingly multicultural, global and interrelated within a network.