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Single Idea 282
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 5. Natural Beauty
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Full Idea
The bodiless things, being the most beautiful and the greatest, are only shown with clarity by speech and nothing else.
Gist of Idea
Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech
Source
Plato (The Statesman [c.356 BCE], 286a)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Statesman', ed/tr. Bernadete,Seth [University of Chicago 1986], p.37
A Reaction
Unfortunately this will be true of warped and ugly ideas as well.
The
14 ideas
with the same theme
[beauty in people, life and landscape]:
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185
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Socrates despised good looks
[Socrates, by Plato]
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282
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Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech
[Plato]
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183
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Stage two is the realisation that beauty of soul is of more value than beauty of body
[Plato]
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184
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Progress goes from physical beauty, to moral beauty, to the beauty of knowledge, and reaches absolute beauty
[Plato]
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2837
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Nothing contrary to nature is beautiful
[Aristotle]
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5851
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Pentathletes look the most beautiful, because they combine speed and strength
[Aristotle]
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4870
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The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible
[Spinoza]
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7540
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws
[Goethe]
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19578
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Only self-illuminated perfect individuals are beautiful
[Novalis]
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22042
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Natural beauty is unimportant, because it doesn't show human freedom
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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18326
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The beautiful never stands alone; it derives from man's pleasure in man
[Nietzsche]
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23921
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Our feeling for natural beauty is different from the aesthetic emotion of art
[Bell,C]
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23929
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We only see landscapes as artistic if we ignore their instrumental value
[Bell,C]
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18548
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Natural beauty reassures us that the world is where we belong
[Scruton]
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