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How to understand kalokagathia?

Publication at Faculty of Physical Education and Sport |
2012

Abstract

This paper introduces various concepts of the ancient Greek ideal kalokagathia, which are to be found in contemporary research: kalokagathia from the point of view of history, the ideal of kalokagathia in the education of the whole human being, kalokagathia as an ideal of harmony of the body and mind, kalokagathia as an ideal of beautiful and good human being, and kalokagathia from the point of view of ontology as the unity of beauty and goodness.