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Single Idea 155

[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty ]

Full Idea

Only beauty has the privilege of being the most clearly discerned and the most lovely of the forms.

Clarification

'Beauty' is the Greek word 'kalos', which also translates as 'fine'

Gist of Idea

Beauty is the clearest and most lovely of the Forms

Source

Plato (Phaedrus [c.366 BCE], 250e)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII', ed/tr. Hamilton,Walter [Penguin 1973], p.57


A Reaction

the motivation in Plato's theory