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Full Idea
The good is beautiful.
Clarification
'Beauty' is the Greek word 'kalos', which also translates as 'fine'
Gist of Idea
The good is beautiful
Source
Plato (Lysis [c.400 BCE], 216d)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Early Socratic Dialogues', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1987], p.150
A Reaction
also Timaeus 87c
294 | People say that friendship exists only between good men [Plato] |
295 | The good is beautiful [Plato] |