Plato lent his name to Platonic love but a new book reveals that the ancient Greek philosopher never advocated love without sex. University of Manchester science historian Dr Jay Kennedy, who hit the ...

A polygon is regular if it is uniform and its faces are all alike. The regular convex polyhedra are the five Platonic solids, which have been known since classical Greece. The ancient Greek ...

While there is beauty in romantic love, the same can be said for platonic love as well. Friendships should be considered just as important, if not more important than having a partner because ...

When Aoi is gang-raped by her classmates and kicked out of her home by her own parents she sees no reason to continue living. Before she commits suicide, however, she receives an email on her ...

Astrology can offer valuable insights into platonic relationships. Ideal zodiac friendships are built on complementary energies, shared values, and understanding. Some notable pairings include ...

As Valentine’s Day brings love into the spotlight, Stylist asks: why do we undervalue platonic love? Flash forward 13 years and at 21 I find myself single. A word, for all its simplicity ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Platonic love is a concept that has profoundly shaped Western literature, philosophy and intellectual history for centuries. First ...

Although atheism is often stereotyped as exclusively physicalistic (“atoms swirling in the void”), many contemporary atheists have developed a Platonic atheism. Platonic atheism affirms abstract ...

Six triangles make a flat sheet that can't be folded into a corner. So only three Platonic solids can be made from triangles. Image caption, Three squares make the corner of a cube. However four ...

The Greek philosopher Plato thought similarly that it was right for the 'better' to rule over the 'inferior'. ...nature herself intimates that it is just for the better to have more than the worse ...

With the Sept. 27 release of “Wolfs,” an action comedy film starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, so-called Hollywood “bromances” have returned to the public eye. “Wolfs” centers on ...