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NOTES
1. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. “British Empire.” 2010. http://www.search.eb.com/eb/article-9016519.
2. Ibid.
3. Plato, Symposium, trans. Stanley Rosen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
“The Beautiful will not manifest itself to this man as a face or a pair of hands, or any other bodily thing; nor
in any proposition, or science, nor as existing anywhere in something else, such as an animal, or the earth or
the heavens, or any other thing whatever. It exists by itself in itself, eternally, and in one form only, and all
other beautiful things participate in it in such a way that, while they come into being and perish, it does not,
nor does it become greater or less nor is it affected by anything.” p.92-93.
4. Ibid.
5. Plato, Symposium, trans. Stanley Rosen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
“This is what is means to progress correctly to an understanding of matters of love , or to be brought to it
by another: in the beginning from these sorts of beauties, to move up constantly for the sake of that beauty
(as if he were using the steps of a stair) , from one to two, and from two to all beautiful bodies, from
beautiful bodies to beautiful acts, from beautiful acts to the beauties of learning, from learning finally to that
knowledge which is none other than knowledge of the Beautiful itself, so that he comes to know in the end,
what beauty is.” P. 93
6. Albert Hofstadter, ed. and Richard Kuhns, ed. Philosophies of Art and Beauty. New York: Random House,
1964.
Aristotle :“Beauty varies with the time of life. In a young man beauty is the possession of a body fit to
endure the exertion of the running and of contests of strength; which means that he is pleasant to look at;
and therefore all-round athletes are the most beautiful being naturally adapted both for contests of strength.
For a man in his prime, beauty is fitness for the exertion of warfare together with a pleasant but at the same
time formidable appearance. For an old man, it is to be strong enough for such exertion as is necessary and
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