苏格拉底“选美”：一个审丑问题

苏格拉底参加＂美的竞赛＂,结果＂完败＂,但这并不能否认苏格拉底的魅力。苏格拉底以其自身提出了如何看待外表丑的问题,他自己的答案是内在美才是最重要的,比较而言,外在的丑根本无足轻重。柏拉图发展了内在美的观点,形成了更为完善的灵魂美思想。在古希腊时期,内在美、灵魂美的提出为审视外表的丑陋提供了新的视点。

Socrates' Competition of Beauty: A Problem of Ugly Appreciation

Socrates took part in ＂the competition of beauty＂,but he ＂failed totally＂.However,we can＇t deny Socrates＇ fascination from this event.Socrates presented the issue of treatment of external ugliness with the example of his own appearance.His answer to this issue was that,comparing with the internal beauty,the external ugliness was count for nothing at all;the most important matter was the internal beauty.Plato expanded the view of internal beauty and formed an improving thought of the beauty of soul.In ancient Greek,it was the proposing of the internal beauty and the beauty of soul that offered a new point of view to judge the ugliness of one＇s appearance.