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:
“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)
“Odour of blood when Christ was slain
Made all Platonic tolerance vain
And vain all Doric discipline.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“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)