RE: On Beauty

Beautiful. :)

Plato did believe that love and beauty, and the love of beauty, were a path to enlightenment. The Greeks greatly associated beauty with moral good, which is perpetuated in their famous expression "kalos kagathos" (beautiful and good). And Plato considered the good as the highest, sometimes he speaks of beauty in the same way, and it is possible that in his thought the two are intimately linked. For him beauty was a way of reaching good. I understand that his followers continued this tradition, and later Plotinus came to affirm that through music liberation can also be achieved, because the musician is able to perceive beauty through his ears.

Beauty is indeed a beautiful thing, and a very good thing. I share that conception with the Greeks, but I don't think that for someone having a beautiful body has a good soul, nor vice versa. What I do believe is that if someone has a beautiful body, it is because their body is good (good for what we use the body for), not his soul. And if someone has a virtuous soul, that soul is beautiful. So, in this way everything good is beautiful in some way.

A very complete post, therefore I don't have much more to add. Good work.

Cheers!