Single Idea 2063

[catalogued under 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change]

Full Idea

If beauty never stays the same, how can it be something?

Clarification

'Beauty' is the Greek word 'kalos', which also translates as 'fine'

Gist of Idea

How can beauty have identity if it changes?

Source

Plato (Cratylus [c.375 BCE], 439e)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.155


A Reaction

A rather Platonic question! I presume that Heraclitus had a sense of beauty, and things regarded as 'sublime' are often tumultuous.