Single Idea 23760

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value]

Full Idea

Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

Gist of Idea

All we need are the unity of justice, truth and beauty

Source

Simone Weil (Human Personality [1943], p.93)

Book Reference

Weil,Simone: 'An Anthology' [Penguin 1986], p.93


A Reaction

The embodiment of platonist values. Without the platonist ontology, I like the identification of a few core values, and have always thought that Beauty, Goodness and Truth were a well chosen trio. Swapping 'justice' for 'goodness' is interesting.

Related Idea

Idea 8117 Perfection comes through the senses (Beauty), through reason (Truth), and through moral will (Good) [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]