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| Plato (c. 428-348 BC), ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the Platonic Academy in Athens. His major works include The Republic (Πολιτεία), The Symposium (Συμπόσιον), The Apology (Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους), The Phaedo (Φαίδων), and The Meno (Μενέξενος). He mainly worked on ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, and cosmology.
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| Beauty: that something is beautiful expresses the positive evaluation of a sensory experience. For example, nature, fragrances, sounds and human emotions are perceived as beautiful. In the field of art, judgments about what is to be regarded as beautiful are subject to greater fluctuations or historical developments than in the sphere of natural perception. This need not be interpreted as evidence of subjective arbitrariness. Rather, judgments change with increasing knowledge. See also aesthetics, art, works of art, perception, judgments._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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| Ancient Philosophy | Beauty | Ancient Philosophy | |
| Aristotle | Beauty | Aristotle | |
| Gadamer, Hans-Georg | Beauty | Gadamer | |
| Herder, Johann Gottfried | Beauty | Herder | |
| Kant, Immanuel | Beauty | Kant | |
| Plato | Beauty | Plato | |
| Quine, W.V.O. | Beauty | Quine | |
| Thomas Aquinas | Beauty | Thomas Aquinas | |
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