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Beauty

To kalon: in Platonism, the radiance of the Good, which awakens love and draws the soul upward.

Also: kalon

Greek philosophy and Neoplatonism

To kalon, the beautiful and noble, is in Plato the Form that shines most clearly through the senses and stirs the soul’s memory and love. Plotinus wrote that the soul must itself become beautiful to see Beauty, as the eye must become sunlike to see the sun.