Single Idea 173

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

Full Idea

What is good is the same as what is beautiful.

Clarification

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

Gist of Idea

Beauty and goodness are the same

Source

Plato (The Symposium [c.373 BCE], 201c)

Book Reference

Plato: 'The Symposium', ed/tr. Hamilton,W [Penguin 1951], p.78