The second title, "Concerning Justice," is not the one by which the Republic is quoted, either by Aristotle or generally in antiquity, and, like the other second titles of the
Platonic Dialogues, may therefore be assumed to be of later date.
The Apology or Platonic defence of Socrates is divided into three parts:
The above remarks must be understood as applying with any degree of certainty to the Platonic Socrates only.
At Cambridge he assimilated two of the controlling forces of his life, the moderate Puritanism of his college and Platonic idealism.
Most important of all, all these elements are shaped to the purpose of the poem by Spenser's high moral aim, which in turn springs largely from his Platonic idealism.
The sequence may very reasonably be interpreted as an expression of Platonic idealism, though it is sometimes taken in a sense less consistent with Sidney's high reputation.
"If it goes by good name and fame," said the bachelor, "your worship alone bears away the palm from all the knights-errant; for the Moor in his own language, and the Christian in his, have taken care to set before us your gallantry, your high courage in encountering dangers, your fortitude in adversity, your patience under misfortunes as well as wounds, the purity and continence of the
platonic loves of your worship and my lady Dona Dulcinea del Toboso-"
After all, the philosopher endured this sort of
platonic marriage very patiently.
Lecount entirely from the
Platonic point of view -- lads in their teens would have found her irresistible -- women only could have hardened their hearts against her, and mercilessly forced their way inward through that fair and smiling surface.
Previously to seeing the Dancing Widows I had little idea that there were any matrimonial relations subsisting in Typee, and I should as soon have thought of a
Platonic affection being cultivated between the sexes, as of the solemn connection of man and wife.
He assumes the characteristic
Platonic view that all men seek the good, and go wrong through ignorance, not through evil will, and so he naturally regards the state as a community which exists for the sake of the good life.
And in response, Abbasi has now shared another note on his 'much discussed
platonic friendship' with Khawar.
A Geometric Analysis of the
Platonic Solids and Other Semi-Regular Polyhedra
A good place to start when talking about a
platonic friend is to define what a
platonic friend is.
