According to traditional Western thought from the antiquity through the Middle Ages, beauty is a constitutive element of the cosmos associated with order, harmony, and mathematics. Classical Philosophy treated and conceived beauty alongside truth, goodness, love, being, and the divine. In this concept, beauty is a supreme value, basic to the whole cosmos.
Kalokagatia- It's the highest ethic and esthetic principle in ancient Greece. This Principe is based on two words which means kάλος(beauty)kάι (and )aγάθοσ(good)
Conclusion that we need to accept for ancient Greek philosophy and Hellens in deed is that they were at the same time ethical as they were esthetical .Biant(one of the seven wisdom reach ancient philosopher) for example said: "You have to watch yourself in the mirror, if you are beautiful do lake that if you are not try to recover physical anomalies with doing good things. or Sappho(one of the greatest poetess from ancient time till today) said:”Someone who is beautiful for my eyes maybe is good person but someone who is good person is at the same time beautiful”. Real balance between two principles.
And how about today? Do we still consider a beautiful face and a body for a beautiful personality? May be not, but we can't deny the attraction we feel to those people. Beauty has always been a power and I believe now days it still is!
A part of the text belongs to : http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Beauty
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