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Single Idea 514

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

Full Idea

Physical beauty is merely animal unless intelligence be present.

Clarification

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

Gist of Idea

Beauty is merely animal without intelligence

Source

Democritus (attrib) (reports [c.250 BCE], B105)

Book Ref

'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.103