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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 Ref
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.
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| 5268 | Disreputable pleasures are only pleasant to persons with diseased perception [Aristotle] |
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| 502 | Good breeding in men means having a good character [Democritus (attr)] |
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| 22239 | Humans acquired the concept of virtue from an analogy with bodily health and strength [Seneca, by Allen] |
| 22237 | The Greeks had a single word meaning both 'beautiful' and 'good' [Pormann] |