In the Platonic interpretation love gets attached to a nameable property of its object, to beauty, which is conceived as strictly universal, equivalent in all of its manifestations. For us, however, the ultimate mystery of love resides in the fact that there is no single attribute which is responsible for it—as Meister Eckhardt said with respect to God, we should not love him because he possesses these and those attributes, but simply because he just is. However valuable the qualities of a person may be, feelings are attached to the unity and totality which lies behind them. … The deepest mystery of our world view, however, Individuality—this unanalyzable unity, which is not to be derived from anything else, not subsumable under any higher concept, set within a world otherwise infinitely analyzable, calculable, and governed by general laws—this individuality stands for us as the actual focal point of love

XREF: Connects to Platonic versus modern views of love, and resonates with Gabriel Marcel and other existentialist accounts of the irreplaceable particular person.

XREF: Connects to the Platonic vs. modern conception-of-love distinction and to Wittgenstein's notion of the indefinable individual.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 580