: By cultivating purity and virtues, the soul can "ascend" from appreciating physical beauty to perceiving the ultimate beauty of the intellect and the divine.
: He explores whether beauty is a complex combination of parts or something perfectly simple and one. Resources and Reading Options
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In this work, Plotinus argues that beauty is not merely about physical symmetry or color, but is a manifestation of the . He asserts that:
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