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Plato

Plato thought ugliness was a moral failure. Not aesthetically offensive but morally wrong. He believed a man who didn’t pursue beauty in his surroundings, his body, his work, was a man who had given up on his life.

And it all begins—and this is my opinion, not Plato’s—with choosing the most beautiful Greek woman as our wife…

Abduction of Helena (1879), by Rudolf Friedrich von Deutsch.

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καλος κ’αγαθος

kalos k’agathos

Beautiful and good.

Indeed, the term ‘kalos’, originally ‘beautiful’ eventually came to mean: ‘good’, as in Modern Greek, but even as far back as Hellenistic times, at least.

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