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PLATONIC LOVE

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 825 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PLATONIC LOVE , 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. Amer 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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