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Full Idea
Virtuous love consists of decorous desire for the beautiful.
Clarification
'Beauty' is the Greek word 'kalos', which also translates as 'fine'
Gist of Idea
Virtuous love consists of decorous desire for the beautiful
Source
Democritus (attrib) (reports [c.250 BCE], B073), quoted by John Stobaeus - Anthology 3.5.23
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.101
A Reaction
Is it possible to love something without seeing it as beautiful? A badly crippled dog, for example. If not, that seems to reveal something about beauty.