Platonic Love

Definition: Today, when people refer to Platonic Love they are referring to an affectionate relationship without sexual intimacy. Plato's Symposium adresses love and presents various opinions on the subject. The type of love Plato seems to have admired most was that in which one man loved another because of his intelligence or virtue, rather than because of his physical attractions. Platonic Love was chiefly between an older man and a younger, like Socrates and his student Alcibiades.

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