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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
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The term in See also: English goes back as far as See also: Sir See also: William Davenant's Platonic Lovers (1636)
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It is derived from the conception, in
See also: Plato's Symposium, of the love of the idea of See also: good which lies at the See also: root of all virtue and truth
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Amer platonicus was used, e.g. by Marsilio See also: Ficino (15th century), as a synonym for amor socraticus, referring to the affection which subsisted between See also: Socrates and his pupils
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