Platonic love is that kind of love that is very strong and pure and doesn’t involve any aspect of sex.The Latin word, “amor platonicus” was first used as early as the fifteenth century by the famous Florentine scholar, Marcilio Ficino. In Plato’s dialogue, the Symposium, Plato informs us about the meaning of Platonic Love. There are particular ideas that are very important and are attributed to the great prophetess, Diotima. These ideas portray that love is a thing used by numerous human beings to connect their minds and love the divinity. According to the great philosopher himself, love is a human way to contemplate the Divine.

In other words, with the original Platonic Love, a beautiful opposite person attracts the human mind and soul towards something that is much more complicated than bodies or infatuation; spiritual entities. The process that one undergoes in this case is mental transformation from recognizing the visible beauty to the appreciation of natural beauty that exists on its own outside any particular thing to contemplating Divinity and loving it.

The spiritual ideas those are included in the theory of Platonic Love along with the fundamental spiritual doctrines in most of Plato’s writings have been defamed and given less importance over the past two hundred years.

Sir William Davenant was probably the first person to use the term “Platonic Love” in English. It was derived from Plato’s famous dialogue, Symposium in which Plato had mentioned that the idea of good rests in all truths and virtues. Platonic Love, for some time, became one of the favorite topics of discussion in the English Royal Court. It specially took place in the circle around the Queen Henrietta Maria who was the wife of King Charles I. This fashion, however, soon passed out because of the changing political and social scenarios.       

Description: Platonic Love is that kind of love which is extremely strong and pure and doesn’t deal sexual intercourse in any way.