As part of a Continuum Art Project we're writing several essays on philosophical issues relating to art. One of these essays is called "The concept of beauty in Ancient Greece" and is about the modern way seeing beauty compared to that of Antiquity.
These days we think of beauty as something describing only the surface of things or people. But the greeks saw deeper and found that by studying the beauty of the world, man had the possibility to transcend his everyday self and merge into something bigger than himself. This transcendental potential is called Plato's Metaphysics and is something most of us has experienced in nature or in art.
You can read the whole essay here (so far in norwegian only).
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