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The ideal of physical and moral beauty especially as conceived by philosophers of classical Greece.

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Usage examples (25)
  • The English “beauty” only approximates to to kalon.
  • Is not mind that which called (kalesan) things by their names, and is not mind the beautiful (kalon)?
  • Very likely you are right; but suppose that we leave these words and endeavour to see the rationale of kalon and aischron.
  • Ceir manylion pellach ar: www. kalon-plouha.bzh.bz.
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