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This second adjective means "good" in a broad and general sense, and had no particular physical or aesthetic connotations, but could describe a person's excellence of character (ethical virtue), for example their bravery. In the 4th century, it often carried implications of dutiful citizenship.
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The phrase could be used both in a generic sense, or with certain specific force. As a generic term, it may have been used as the combination of distinct virtues, which we might translate as "handsome and brave", or the intersection of the two words "good" or "upstanding". Translations such as
311:(1998). Her interpretation is dependent upon the interpretation that for Aristotle, both kalokagathia and megalopsuchia, are not, in their true forms, virtues that come about only because people want to be honoured for doing good things. 146:"gentleman" or "knight" have traditionally been suggested to convey the social aspect of the phrase, while "war hero" or the more cynical "martyr" are more recent versions, and emphasise the military element. 142:. It became a fixed phrase by which the Athenian aristocracy referred to itself; in the ethical philosophers, the first of whom were Athenian gentlemen, the term came to mean the ideal or perfect man. 215:
means beautiful and encompasses meanings equivalent to English "good", "noble", and "handsome". The form given by convention is the masculine, but it was equally used of women (the feminine form is
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Its recorded usage dates from the second half of the 5th and in the 4th century B.C.. For example, in Plato's
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In Aristotle, the term becomes important as a technical term used in discussions about
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and the classical period. The phrase is adjectival, composed of two adjectives,
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The possession of the beautiful and the good has a correspondent in Latin:
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The word was a term used in Greek when discussing the concept of
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Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty
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Engstrom, Stephen; Whiting, Jennifer (April 13, 1998).
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Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures
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Index

Kalokagathia
Ancient Greek
[kalòskaːɡatʰós]
kalokagathia
classical Greek
gentlemanly
personal conduct
Herodotus
καλός
ἀγαθός
crasis
Werner Jaeger
chivalrous
personality
aristocracy
Lysis
Aristotle
Eudemian Ethics
Xenophon
Socratic dialogues
Oeconomicus
Ethics
Plato
Republic
Socrates
Ancient Greek
morality
Nicomachean Ethics
Eudemian Ethics
megalopsuchia

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