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Single Idea 185

[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 5. Natural Beauty ]

Full Idea

Socrates despises good looks to an almost inconceivable extent.

Gist of Idea

Socrates despised good looks

Source

report of Socrates (reports of career [c.420 BCE]) by Plato - The Symposium 216e

Book Ref

Plato: 'The Symposium', ed/tr. Hamilton,W [Penguin 1951], p.103