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Single Idea 172

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

Full Idea

There cannot be such a thing as love of ugliness.

Gist of Idea

Love of ugliness is impossible

Source

Plato (The Symposium [c.384 BCE], 201a)

Book Ref

Plato: 'The Symposium', ed/tr. Hamilton,W [Penguin 1951], p.78