platonic ideals
Pure friendship goals
Platonic ideals are perfect, eternal forms that exist beyond the physical world—the abstract essences of which earthly things are imperfect copies.
In Plato's philosophy, a particular chair is merely a flawed reflection of the ideal Chair.
The concept extends beyond philosophy: Her platonic ideal of a vacation involves beaches and no email.
The phrase often describes an imagined perfect version of something against which reality falls short.
- aestheticsTheory of beauty
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- metaphysicsPhilosophy of existence's nature
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- the good lifeComfortable, fulfilling existence
ontology · symbolism · archetypes · universals · allegory · transcendence · abstraction · true nature · perfection · justice · timelessness · truth · human flourishing · beauty · dualism · harmony · utopia · Socrates
- idealismneoplatonism, ideality, Kant, Hegel, Berkeley
- aestheticsaesthetics, aesthetic, beauty, beautiful, ugly
platonic idealsempiricism
Knowledge through observation
scientific observation · inductive reasoning · positivism · tabula rasa · pragmatism
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