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PLATONIC LOVE

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 825 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLATONIC LOVE , a See also:

term commonly applied to an affectionate relation between a See also:man and a woman into which the sexual See also:element does not enter. The term in See also:English goes back as far as See also:Sir See also:William See also:Davenant's Platonic Lovers (1636). It is derived from the conception, in See also:Plato's See also:Symposium, of the love of the See also:idea of See also:good which lies at the See also:root of all virtue and truth. Amer platonicus was used, e.g. by Marsilio See also:Ficino (15th See also:century), as a synonym for amor socraticus, referring to the See also:affection which subsisted between See also:Socrates and his pupils.

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