Single Idea 22237

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health]

Full Idea

The later Greeks coined the term 'kalokagathia' for the fact of being both beautiful [kalos] and good [agathos], thus linking moral and physical health.

Gist of Idea

The Greeks had a single word meaning both 'beautiful' and 'good'

Source

Peter E. Pormann (Medical Conceptions of Health pre-Renaissance [2019], p.44)

Book Reference

Adamson,Peter: 'Health: a history', ed/tr. Adamson,Peter [OUP 2019], p.44


A Reaction

In their literature good people are often handsome, and bad people ugly. Socrates was famous for being an exception.