platonic ideal
Pure friendship standard
A platonic ideal is the perfect, abstract form of something—the essence that all real examples merely approximate.
From Plato's theory that physical objects are imperfect copies of eternal forms: The platonic ideal of a chair exists only in the mind.
In casual use, it means the ultimate or quintessential version: She's the platonic ideal of a jazz singer.
- archetypeOriginal model for copies
- formShape or document
- pure formConcept stripped to essentials
- beautyAesthetic excellence
- the GoodMoral excellence itself
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platonic idealnominalism
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materialism · physicalism · empiricism · particularism · social construct
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