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Single Idea 183

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

Full Idea

The second stage of progress is to realise that beauty of soul is more valuable than beauty of body.

Clarification

'Soul' is the Greek word 'psuché', which covers mind and consciousness and life

Gist of Idea

Stage two is the realisation that beauty of soul is of more value than beauty of body

Source

Plato (The Symposium [c.384 BCE], 210b)

Book Reference

Plato: 'The Symposium', ed/tr. Hamilton,W [Penguin 1951], p.92