WiM028 - The Frisby Series | Episode 6 | Beauty, Mythology, and War
The "What is Money?" Show
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The Ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato, and Acclue
The ancient greeks, they had thi also this idea that your beauty was a gift from the gods. And if you were beautiful on the outside, it meant you had inner perfection too. Acclue, according to am plato, was knowing beauty self. That was the most enlightened state that somebody could reach. I 'm just going to turn now to oscar wilde on the subject of beauty. He says, beauty is a form of genius. Is higher indeed than genius, as it needs no explanation. It cannot be questioned. It has the divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
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