Platonic can refer to:
- Platonic love, a relationship that is not sexual in nature
- Platonic idealism
- Platonic solid, any of the five convex regular polyhedra
- Platonic crystal, a periodic structure designed to guide wave energy through thin plates
- Platonism, the philosophy of Plato (Classical period)
- Middle Platonism, a later philosophy derived from that of Plato (1st century BC to 3rd century AD)
- Neoplatonism, a philosophic school of Late Antiquity deriving from Plato (starting in the 3rd century AD)
- Platonism in the Renaissance
- In civics or politics, a Platonist is someone who advocates a system resembling The Republic (Plato)
- Neoclassical economics is sometimes described as Platonist
Famous quotes containing the word platonic:
“I’ve arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)
“So the Platonic Year
Whirls out new right and wrong,
Whirls in the old instead;
All men are dancers and their tread
Goes to the barbarous clangour of a gong.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)