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Single Idea 282

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

Full Idea

The bodiless things, being the most beautiful and the greatest, are only shown with clarity by speech and nothing else.

Gist of Idea

Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech

Source

Plato (The Statesman [c.356 BCE], 286a)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Statesman', ed/tr. Bernadete,Seth [University of Chicago 1986], p.37


A Reaction

Unfortunately this will be true of warped and ugly ideas as well.