Socrates, a Greek thinker, philosopher, and educator, is known as the "Confucius of the West", who is not only an extremely important figure in the history of philosophy, but also a figure of world historical significance.
Socrates
Socrates left many famous sayings to future generations and spread them to the world. He famously proposed that "virtue is knowledge". He said that a life without thinking is not a life worth living, believing that knowledge can be gained through rational thinking.
Introduction to Confucius
Beauty, a Greek concept that means both beauty and goodness, refers to both physical beauty and good virtue, and it is difficult to translate it in Chinese and English in one word.
Socrates believed that beauty is relative and that there is no eternal absolute beauty. Beauty is applicability, and every thing serves its purpose well, that is, good and beautiful.
Socrates
Socrates looked at human beauty from the point of view of goodness or teleology. Here, beauty does not refer to a righteous thought, but to a righteous act, and this righteousness means the meaning of being appropriate and exerting its own function.
Philosophy of man
Socrates believed that a person who has fully realized himself is a person who has fully functioned, that is, a person who has goodness, that is, a beautiful person.
Oh man! Know yourself
Socrates did not deny the outward beauty of man, he believed that the appearance of beauty is not modified, but from a certain production and life practice exercise, only those who engage in righteous acts are beautiful.
Studies in The Philosophy of Pre-Socrates
Socrates was first and foremost an ethicist who always looked at beauty and art from the point of view of social benefit. He was the key to the transformation of early Greek aesthetic thought, shifting the center of attention from nature to society, and aesthetics as an integral part of the social sciences.
Introduction to Socrates
Socrates' aesthetic proposition pointed out from the perspective of society that the criterion for evaluating beauty lies in its utility to man. Based on utility, he saw the relativity of beauty. Since then, beauty has been intimately linked to goodness, and aesthetics and ethics have been intimately linked.