img src=/img2/10176.jpg height=130 width=180 border=1 hspace=8 vspace=8 align=left alt="" In thinking about eros, two levels are usually distinguished: sex - and eros, or sex - and love. For example, Nikolai Berdyaev writes: "I have always thought that it is necessary to make a distinction between eros and sex, love-eros and the physiological life of sex." ("Self-knowledge", ch. 2; cited by: N.A. Berdyaev. Eros and personality. Philosophy of sex and love. M .: Prometheus, 1989, p. 135).