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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- Platonic (adj.)
- 1530s, "of or pertaining to Gk. philosopher Plato" (429 B.C.E.-c.347 B.C.E.). The name is Gk. Platon, properly "broad-shouldered" (from platys "broad;" see place (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.
- 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.
P.S. There are also the words platonism and Neo-platonism
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