Beautiful is what you love

  • Pablo García Castillo
Keywords: Beauty, Desire, Love, Grace, Good, Plato, Plotinus

Abstract

From the Greek Lyric Poetry to Plotino’s aesthetics, the vision of the beauty can be contemplated as the object of love and the desire of Good. Plato doesn’t reach a beauty’s definition in his early dialogs, but he brightly expresses his conception of love and beauty, both, in Symposium and Phaedrus. And Plotinus, interpreting these platonic texts, raises the concept of beauty up to a joyful contemplation of Good. Plotinus holds that grace is this unjustified gift that is added to beauty to provoke love and availability, the beautiful presence that glimpses out the Good.

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Published
2010-09-02
How to Cite
García Castillo P. . (2010). Beautiful is what you love. Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 27, 255-275. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ASHF/article/view/ASHF1010110255A
Issue
Vol. 27 (2010)
Section
Estudios

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