Definition of "kalokagathia" [kalokagathia]

• A Platonic teaching based on philosophy of a bodily, moral and spiritual whole. (noun)

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• "157 — 120 On the word kalokagathia so translated, see Demosth."
• "George assumed that the true spirit of Platonic paideia was akin to his own endeavor to bring about a renais - sance of hellenism by the training of an elite imbued with the ideal of kalokagathia."
• "It would be inexact to say that Emerson blended the beautiful with the precepts of duty or of prudence into one complex sentiment, as the Greeks did, but his theory of excellence might be better described than any other of modern times by the [Greek: kalokagathia], the virtue of the true gentleman, as set down in Plato and Aristotle."