Platonic ideal, right? So that they are truly more real than this stuff.
Strictly platonic I don't know I I I don't know what you've heard but uh I'm actually a pretty big crossword fan I
One is kind of platonic geoengineering.
It's all platonic. And-- --it kind of stuck.
It's a wonderful platonic dream.
It was the Platonic ideal of a Christmas tree.
They're the Platonic point of view.
These are the Platonic solids.
which is basically the Platonic solid with an infinite number of faces-- that the Platonic solids must ultimately give some sort of
so there were five Platonic solids, the sphere gives us six-- and there were six planets then known, out to Saturn.
So the word platonic love these days is often associated with a kind of friendship love.
kind of platonic about it." It was wonderful, and that was a kind of spiritual experience, I would say.
That's platonic isn't it?
- Before we talk about the platonic space, let's lay out some foundations. I think one useful one comes from the paper,
romantic or whether it's platonic. Um that's just that's that's part of being a human being.
You value your romantic and platonic relationships, but do you know that they determine how long you live?
My favorite movie that depicts platonic male-female friendship is "Say Anything." I'm amazed by how few people in this country have seen it.
Like was it like with the platonic relationships where it's kind of like intended from the start to put them in the same place at the same time,
I wanted to show that their platonic relationship can be maintained while Kat grows an attraction with another classmate.
And he couldn't fit in his Platonic model.
And at that level there is also platonic truth which is uh things like
You can have sex in a platonic relationship, but Plato would argue that sex in and of itself is not what true love is.
And more specifically with Plato and the platonic solids the idea that ideas that symmetry and mathematical perfection provide the building principles that the world embodies.
- Yeah, so this platonic notion of greatness, and that you could say that's a thread that connects with Xi Jinping, the great history,
on the back burner-- it might be completely platonic or it could be sexual, just someone who you might want to have a relationship with down the line,
I also love that the film depicts a platonic but deeply, deeply loving relationship between two women that is so beautiful and unique
So when you think about trying to deal with platonic perfections of truth, beauty, and equity, and rights, and the humanism of our relationships,
Now, this is very platonic, as in the sense of what Plato had to say in his dialogs, particularly the analogy of the cave.
these properties. But the Platonic solids all have wonderfully symmetric properties.
written but along synthesizing them with aristoilian and platonic philosophies also with the people in the third century who' argued against humors
Plato had a theory of atoms based on the so-called platonic solids which are very symmetric objects.
- All right, so to descend down from the platonic ideals of the left and the right, well, who is actually running the show
And some of the most important relationships I have in my life are platonic relationships with the opposite sex.
So no for the mirror, no for the Platonician ideal, but yes to these women and men
like the development, especially like platonic relationships, feels really natural.
So, I love you in a kind of platonic way means that you are my friend and that there's no sexual relations here at all.
It’s a fictionalized biography of the titular Facundo, who’s pretty much the platonic ideal of the corrupt caudillo.
And not only that, I don't feel like you see in film very often platonic relationships between girls and boys.
One is "The Symposium." And that's the one from which we derive our slightly degraded idea of Platonic love.
of geometric structures out of thousands of bamboo sticks woven together and linked into these huge networks of platonic solids.
snakes to primates, but we really don't. We don't have, and this is, we'll get into more of the stuff on the platonic space, but our
So now, let's talk about optimal policy, still in this kind of platonic world.
And so I have on screen a little screenshot of dialogues, Galileo, and also the Platonic dialogues--
And I won't, but I'll just mention as a footnote, it's interesting to think about, to compare this to a platonic or Socratic dialogue.
There's a scenario here, with that variation, at the same level of fitness, the same sort of platonic state that they were in, where Yohan Blake wins
And I always think of sisterhood, and just good friendships, and any kind of relationships, whether they're romantic, or platonic, or sisters, or brothers, or siblings.
The missing one, of course, is the D10, which is not in fact a Platonic solid.
And many, many thinkers, in trying to uncover sort of the secrets of nature, assume that the Platonic solids and the sphere--
This is Kepler's awesomely-named "Mysterium Cosmographicum." And basically, what he did is he took the various Platonic solids and the sphere--
And he said, oh, you know, six Platonic solids including the sphere, six planets-- maybe they're related somehow.