The term amor platonicus was coined as early as the 15th Century by Marsilio Ficino, as a synonym for "amor socraticus," referring to the affection between Socrates and his pupils.
The English term dates back as far as Sir William Davenant's Platonic Lovers (1636). It is derived from the concept in Plato's Symposium, of the love of the idea of good which lies at the root of all virtue and truth.
Platonic love in its modern sense is an affectionate relationship into which the sexual element does not enter, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopędia Britannica.
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"Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost." - Ambrose Bierce
Platonic love is an affectionate relationship into which the sexual element does not enter, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise.
Platonic love is a form of love, according to what we believe the strongest one.
The problem isn't with this guy talk of platonic marriages, the problem is that he feels platonic variation of same-sex marriages is so inherently different than the hetero variation that it warrants a mention in *this* article.
This establishes a one-to-one relationship between faces of the cube and edges of the tetrahedron, so there must be the same number of each.
In the other four Platonic solids, faces are opposite faces and vertices are opposite vertices, so the number of faces does not need to equal the number of vertices.
This special triple relationship between the cube and the octahedron is called duality, and has many important consequences.
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