We live in an era, that the external appearance is perhaps the dominant issue that preoccupies not only women but also men every day. Many times we are even willing to……..
spend dizzying sums on products or services that promise to improve both the appearance of our face and body.
Of course the reason is that a nice appearance, not only does it never go unnoticed, but on the contrary many times it is the passport that can lead us more easily to the achievement of our goal.
But have we ever thought that this constant preoccupation with the care of our face or body, that is, with him EXTERNAL WORLD OF PHENOMENA could be an obstacle to CULTIVATION OF OUR MENTAL WORLD;
Ancient Greek Philosophy considers that the theme of the Callus is perhaps the most basic theme with which a Man can begin his pursuit of the search in our life for something more than what we perceive in the VISIBLE WORLD, where this Callos undoubtedly plays one LEADING ROLE.
With his theme KALLOUS all the great Ancient Greek Philosophers, without exception, have dealt with it.
Diogenes Laertius in his work "Lives of Philosophers", in the chapter that chronicles the life and work of Aristotle, trying to explain her CONCEPT OF BEAUTY, he cites the views of many leading Philosophers.
A man who wishes to approach the Truth by trying to apply the well-known command of Apollo "KNOW IT» he is obliged to deal with her A DEEPER CONCEPT OF BEAUTY.
So let us know the views of the Ancient Greek Philosophers, starting with Aristotle.
Let us follow the extremely austere ancient text, so that we come into contact not only with philosophical views, but also with the wonderful language of our ancestors.
After rendering the ancient text, there are relevant comments that can help us gain a complete picture of the concept of beauty, which MAYBE IT LEADS US TO REVIEW some things in our daily life, which today we consider of primary importance.
As we will see later, our great Philosophers consider that behind this beautiful appearance, many traps and even dangers are hidden for those people who have it!
“the beauty of everything said in a constituent letter”
Aristotle talked about the external beauty of a person, that is the most important qualification, much more than the best letter of recommendation.
We notice that Aristotle absolutely agrees, in the view we took for granted, that is, that the external beauty of a Man is unquestionably his greatest quality.
That's how important it is to look good, that many times a handsome Man without any other qualifications could surpass another less handsome, even if the latter has a lot of knowledge!
“but this was decided by Diogenes, but this is God's gift, they call it beauty”
Some others say that Diogenes defined beauty as follows: "Whoever possesses beauty, he thinks he has a gift from God.”
Diogenes in turn, does not consider the external beauty of a person, it could actually be a "Gift from God", fact which they consider, obviously wrong, all these People who are beautiful and see doors "open to their beauty"
That is, someone who is objectively beautiful, he should perceive that this the supposed advantage, could turn out to be the biggest disadvantage, in his personal development.
It could even be dangerous, because a beautiful outward appearance makes the Man who possesses it believe that because of his beauty he is "someone" when in reality, if it remains only in this, he will succeed in doing absolutely nothing in his life, he won't be able to go any further.
Because the natural result of this beauty is this man, not to try to develop his Psychic gifts, since he usually sees the doors open wide in front of him because of this beautiful appearance of his.
“But Socrates was a tyrant for a short time”·
Socrates' view was that he who possesses external beauty, will suffer, as in a short-lived tyranny.
namely ,Socrates believes that a handsome and good-looking man, he is a prisoner of this image of himself, for as long as it possesses this beautiful appearance.
Because, as long as he is young and handsome, he can apparently influence his environment to his advantage, without having to do anything else.
Certainly from the moment we refer to Socrates, we could associatively refer to the classic example of Alcibiades, who was very handsome in appearance, so that indeed he can influence everyone to his advantage. But as we know, his "inner beauty", that is, his mental development did not keep pace with the external, with the result that it brings him great unhappiness almost throughout his life and a very bad end.
So according to Socrates, external beauty could not usually be a guarantee of a happy life, for a beautiful man remains a prisoner of his beauty for the years of youth that will last, in exactly the same way that we are captive to a tyrannical regime.
“Plato advantage of nature”
Plato's view, for the same matter of outward appearance, was that beauty is only a natural advantage, and nothing more.
That is, Plato considers that the beautiful external appearance of a person, it cannot by itself bring about any mental or mental advantage. It is in no way related to the image of our inner world.
Plato, mentioning the word "nature" we might take it to refer to the case of animals, where this concept is in full operation.
Indeed a beautiful and agreeable external appearance is particularly useful only for an animal, which in the event that it is beautiful and nice, has a "nature advantage" against some nasty animals, as he becomes much more easily likable and lovable, without making the slightest effort, but merely showing off his beautiful and well-made nature!
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