Platonic

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Plato's influence on Western culture was so profound that several different concepts are linked by being called "platonic" or Platonist, for accepting some assumptions of Platonism, but which do not imply acceptance of that philosophy as a whole.

Platonic can refer to:

• Platonic love, a relationship that is not sexual in nature
• Platonic idealism
• In civics or politics, a Platonist is someone who advocates a system resembling Plato's Republic. These are really quite rare.
• Neoclassical economics is sometimes described as Platonist in some sense, because of neoliberal assumptions about pure capitalism as an ideal system which actual economies must attempt but never really achieve.
• Platonic solid, any of the five convex regular polyhedra
• Anything relating to Plato

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Platonic" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic, used under the GNU Free Documentation License