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Originally Posted by me
The Greek word kalos / kalon meant something like the "true-beautiful-good", all in one. It's the thing fex. Plato discusses and the one only the scholastics (in 13-14th century) opened conceptually by saying that in ratione (intellectually, or conceptually) one might divide these three into parts but in re (in truth-beaty-goodness, in fact) they are the one and the same.
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Sorry. I forgot the most important thing - even though it might be obvious to some of you. This
kalos, the noblest or highest of the ideas by Plato was converged through the earlier neo-platonic St. Augustine to mark God and by his word was canonised as being the One of the Christians. So the train of thought is pretty understandable here?
EDIT: Oh, stupid me! I managed to "edit" my last post and this it what became of it... Darn imbecile I am! Most of my post lost...
But what I tried to say in my earlier post was that Tolkien probably knew the tradition of
kalos and used it to his purposes. And most unfortunately we can see this triad again in Nazism where truth was good and beautiful too... I do not say we couldn't construct the trio with some "nicer" ends in mind, but the history of that looks pretty dark indeed...