Plato
Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...
'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. It may also refer to:
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Platonic love
Platonic love (often lowercased as platonic love) is a type of love in which sexual desire or romantic features are nonexistent or has been suppressed or sublimated, but it means more than simple friendship.
The term is derived from the nam ...
, a relationship that is not sexual in nature
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Platonic forms, or the theory of forms, Plato's model of existence
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Platonic idealism
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Platonic solid
In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all edges c ...
, any of the five convex regular polyhedra
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Platonic crystal Platonic crystals are periodic structures which are designed to guide flexural wave energy through thin elastic plates.
The term platonic crystal is formed by analogy to photonic crystals, phononic crystals, and plasmonic crystals. The name emph ...
, a periodic structure designed to guide wave energy through thin plates
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Platonism, the philosophy of Plato (Classical period)
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Middle Platonism, a later philosophy derived from that of Plato (1st century BC to 3rd century AD)
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Neoplatonism
Neoplatonism is a strand of Platonism, Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and Hellenistic religion, religion. The term does not encapsulate a set of ideas as much as a chain of ...
, a philosophic school of Late Antiquity deriving from Plato (starting in the 3rd century AD)
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Platonism in the Renaissance
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