• aleq@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    It’s named like that because it was what he thought was an ideal relationship, though? No?

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      7 days ago

      Plato had this whole thing about perfect forms that exist outside the physical world, and those perfect forms get corrupted once they are manifested in reality.

      Not sure if he specifically had an ideal definition of friendship, or the notion of a perfect, non romantic friendship is described as Platonic because of how messy real world relationships can get.