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| 22237 | The Greeks had a single word meaning both 'beautiful' and 'good' |
| Full Idea: The later Greeks coined the term 'kalokagathia' for the fact of being both beautiful [kalos] and good [agathos], thus linking moral and physical health. | |||
| From: Peter E. Pormann (Medical Conceptions of Health pre-Renaissance [2019], p.44) | |||
| A reaction: In their literature good people are often handsome, and bad people ugly. Socrates was famous for being an exception. |