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Single Idea 2063

[filed under theme 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.377 BCE], 439e)

Book Ref

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