[PDF.30sm] Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture)

Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture)

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 | #413283 in Books |  2015-01-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.90 x1.10 x8.40l, | File type: PDF | 280 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A worthy entree to a fundamental inquiry|By james parke|If there is a raison d'être for living, among many big meaning-and-purpose concepts like "doing good" and "making a difference", is appreciating beauty. But, some understanding of the word is a prerequisite. This overview ably begins that journey. I was surprised at the erudition, scholastic rigor and breadth of sour| ||"In his absorbing "Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea," the classicist David Konstan sets out to recover ancient Greek notions of beauty in both life and art. Did the Greeks have a coherent concept of "beauty" at all, Mr. Konstan asks, and how far

What does it mean to say something is beautiful? On the one hand, beauty is associated with erotic attraction; on the other, it is the primary category in aesthetics, and it is widely supposed that the proper response to a work of art is one of objective contemplation. At its core, then, beauty is a contested concept, and both sides feel comfortable appealing to the authority of Plato, and via him, to the ancient Greeks generally. So, who is right-if either?

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