Plato's influence on Western culture was so profound that several different concepts are linked by being called "platonic" or Platonist, for accepting some assumptions of Platonism, but which don't imply acceptance of that philosophy as a whole. Platonic can refer to: Platonic love, a relationship that isn't sexual in nature Platonic idealism In civics or politics, a Platonist's someone who advocates a system resembling Plato's Republic Neoclassical economics's sometimes described as Platoni… (More on Platonic)