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platonic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Platonic \Pla*ton"ic\, n. A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
Platonic \Pla*ton"ic\, Platonical \Pla*ton"ic*al\, a. [L. Platonicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. platonique.]
Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions.
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Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical.
Platonic bodies, the five regular geometrical solids; namely, the tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
Platonic love, a pure, spiritual affection, subsisting between persons of opposite sex, unmixed with carnal desires, and regarding the mind only and its excellences; -- a species of love for which Plato was a warm advocate.
Platonic year (Astron.), a period of time determined by the revolution of the equinoxes, or the space of time in which the stars and constellations return to their former places in respect to the equinoxes; -- called also great year. This revolution, which is caused by the precession of the equinoxes, is accomplished in about 26,000 years.
--Barlow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "of or pertaining to Greek philosopher Plato" (429 B.C.E.-c.347 B.C.E.), from Latin Platonicus, from Greek Platonikos. The name is Greek Platon, properly "broad-shouldered" (from platys "broad;" see plaice (n.)). His original name was Aristocles. The meaning "love free of sensual desire" (1630s), which the word usually carries nowadays, is a Renaissance notion; it is based on Plato's writings in "Symposium" about the kind of interest Socrates took in young men, which originally had no reference to women. Related: Platonically.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not sexual in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love. 2 (alternative case form of Platonic nodot=1 English) (gloss: of or relating to the philosophical views of Plato and his successors).
Wikipedia
Plato's influence on Western culture was so profound that several different concepts are linked by being called "platonic" or Platonist, for accepting some assumptions of Platonism, but which do not imply acceptance of that philosophy as a whole.
Platonic can refer to:
- Platonic love, a relationship that is not sexual in nature
- Platonic idealism
- Platonic solid, any of the five convex regular polyhedra
- Platonic crystal, a periodic structure designed to guide wave energy through thin plates
- Platonism, the philosophy of Plato ( Classical period)
- Middle Platonism, a later philosophy derived from that of Plato (1st century BC to 3rd century AD)
- Neoplatonism, a philosophic school of Late Antiquity deriving from Plato (starting in the 3rd century AD)
- Platonism in the Renaissance
- In civics or politics, a Platonist is someone who advocates a system resembling that discussed in Plato's The Republic.
- Neoclassical economics is sometimes described as Platonist
Usage examples of "platonic".
Anyhow, it is certain that even in Aristotelian philosophy, let alone Platonic philosophy, there was already a tradition of highly intelligent interpretation.
The Platonic, Ciceronian distinction between natural and artificial can no longer be maintained.
Any ball hit anyplace on a baseball field had been hit just that way thousands of times before: the average of all those hits was the Platonic idea.
Because if Jonah could deceive himself that joblessness was a force which kept their marriage a strained, platonic alliance, Fern could deceive herself that passionlessness was a force which kept her from painting.
Platonic dialogue to attack philosophers, parallels the satyric release from constraining social conventions.
Throughout the summer, I carried on a course of Platonic love with my charming Angela at the house of her teacher of embroidery, but her extreme reserve excited me, and my love had almost become a torment to myself.
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition and to which we will return.
Proclus, the Platonic philosopher, connects them with the science of astronomy--a science which, he adds, the Egyptians derived from the Chaldeans.
Ascending and Descending currents together admirably, expressing and polishing the original Platonic nonduality.
Platonic conclusion: mental health is attunement with the Kosmosa Kosmos that includes matter, body, mind, soul, and spirit.
Voices, commands, laughter: for an hour activity prevailed in the nihilation area, while the target plane flew over the city again from the sea side, slipped away from the searchlights, and, caught again, became a Platonic target: The Number 6 manned the fuze setter, trying with cranks to make two mechanical pointers coincide with two electrical pointers and unflinchingly nihilating the evasive essent.
Following a tender scene between Thomas and Giulielma in which he pleads with her to accompany him north, a fall from a horse leads somewhat inexplicably into a heated discussion of justice between Thomas, William and Mr Kane employing patches of Platonic dialogue lifted directly from Book I of the Republic, interspersed with unattributed views of Albert Camus on total justice and of Rousseau on absolute freedom, and Thomas departs.
I even went so far as to persuade myself that nothing but a Platonic friendship could exist between her and M.
Damascius, who lived under Justinian, composed another work, consisting of 570 praeternatural stories of souls, daemons, apparitions, the dotage of Platonic Paganism.
I'd sit down at the kitchen table and before I even opened the box, I'd make sure that I had all the right tools, the right kind of glue and all the right paints, matt and gloss, and a really, really sharp craft knife, and I'd promise myself that I was going to follow the instructions absolutely to the letter, and really take my time, not leap ahead, not rush things, proceed with care, concentrate, really, really concentrate, so that at the end I'd have this perfect model plane, the Platonic ideal of what a model plane should be.