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Aristotle’s Three Universal
Values: the True, the Beautiful,
and the Good.
When thinking about preferable
futures, it helps to consider
the True, the Beautiful, and the
Good.
Both Eastern and Western
philosophers in antiquity
recognized the importance of the
values of the True, the
Beautiful, and the Good.
The Bhagavad Gita in the East
and Plato and Aristotle in the
West all explored these values
as universal properties of
being.
Aristotle was the first to
champion the universality of
these values categories,
dividing human intellect into
theoretical, productive, and
practical, with each concerned
respectively with knowledge and
truth, the creation of beautiful
objects, and ethics and the
nature of the good.
According to Aristotle’s model,
our intellect can be divided
into three parts – the
theoretical mind which focuses
on knowledge and truth, the
productive mind which is
concerned with creating
beautiful objects, and the
practical mind which deals with
ethics and the concept of the
good.
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