"Kalon"
 

kalon: "the quality of radiant beauty or nobility that belongs only to things that appear"
 
"the ancient Greeks included human lives among the things they called kalon" because "a human life has an exhibitive, expressive quality: it shows itself in the world" (46)

> from Clare Carlisle's Transcendence for Beginners (2025)

> tagged with #visual_culture, #objects, #beauty

> created August 12, 2026 at 9:50:35 AM


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