Platonic love

We just can't stop talking about it.

This is Strictly Platonic.

And there's no flirting,

allegedly.

Welcome to Strictly Platonic, no flirting allegedly.

I'm Jen Wosu here with my business partner, Richard Decker.

We are two single dating tech entrepreneurs in different cities and different countries with two very different approaches to love.

And what was most striking, there was already in her face the expression of motherliness and resignation commonly seen in respectable women of her age, and this, of course, I had never seen in her before.

In short, of the school-girlish and Platonic, her face had kept a gentle smile, and nothing more.

We got into conversation.

Learning that I was already an engineer, Kisochka was immensely delighted.

Until such attitudes are widely adopted, the actual danger of Israeli policies based on Jewish ideology remains greater than the danger of policies based on purely strategic considerations.

The difference between the two kinds of policies is well expressed by Hugh Trevor-Roper in his essay Sir Thomas More and Utopia, in which he termed them Platonic and Machiavellian.

Quoting, Machiavelli at least apologized for the methods which he thought necessary in politics.

He regretted the necessity of force and fraud and did not call them by any other name.

While Gossett at least sees a need to argue that the Israeli diktat benefits the Arab regimes, Ben-Gurion did not pretend that the reestablishment of the Kingdom of David and Solomon will benefit anybody except the Jewish state.

Using the concepts of Platonism to analyze Israeli policies based on Jewish ideology should not seem strange.

It was noticed by several scholars, of whom the most important was Moses Hadas, who claimed that the foundations of classical Judaism, that is, of Judaism as it is established by Talmudic sages, are based on Platonic influences and especially on the image of Sparta as it appears in Plato.

According to Hadas, a crucial feature of the Platonic political system adopted by Judaism as early as the Maccabean period, one forty-two to sixty-three BC, was that every phase of human conduct be subjected to religious sanctions which are in fact to be manipulated by the ruler.

there's a beauty in that there is

this is also a great period to invest in platonic love which is something that hillary and i also really emphasize and this is the core of community it's relationships and shared experiences that don't really often come with any of those expectations like certainty are we still going to be friends in five months are we still going to be seeing each other in six months platonic love is we have so much more grace for that but it's also something we don't really prioritize And I have found that the investment in platonic love in this period of my life has given me so much more of a foundation for knowing who I am and maybe knowing what it will look like to add a romantic partner to that mix.

But the platonic relationships I have are the ones that really ground my life and affirm who I am so that I can approach a romantic relationship.

And I don't necessarily need this affirmation from the romantic person, right? Because again, looking back, that's what a lot of my dating experience prior to meeting my ex-husband and probably what I was looking for him to do a lot in our marriage was affirm me Affirm me, make me feel like I'm this queen because right, again, these are all the messages people tell us, but the platonic relationships in my life give me the affirmation.

I need to feel confident in the midst of the uncertainty that is life.

Well said.

Here's to platonic love.

Absolutely.