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Platonic Love
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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A term commonly applied to an affectionate relation between a man and a woman into which the sexual element does not enter. The term in English goes back as far as Sir William Davenant's Platonic Lovers (1636). It is derived from the conception, in Plato's Symposium, of the love of the idea of good which lies at the root of all virtue and truth. Amor platonicus was used, e.g. by Marsilio Ficino (15th century), as a synonym for amor socraticus, referring to the affection which subsisted between Socrates and his pupils.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Platonic Love'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/platonic-love.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Platonic Love'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/platonic-love.html. 1910.
