A stop along the way

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More than 2,500 years ago, the Greeks began to shape their social culture by privileging principles that they
considered essential, including ethics and aesthetics. From these concepts, enriched by Roman, Jewish and
Christian contributions, derive the fundamental and permanent values that constitute civilization. Western tion, to
which we belong.

Ethics, according to Aristotle, is the part of philosophy that studies morality and human behavior. bre, while
aesthetics, according to Hegel's definition, is the science of beauty born of the spirit. Ethics includes the most
important moral virtues of men: strength, temperance, friendship, truth, equity and justice, which are expressed in
behavior, since the duty of virtues Des is to propose the noblest goal. Aesthetics, which has as its object the vast
empire of the beautiful, is manifested by manners, style and ways of acting. The link between the two and their
importance in politics is highlighted by Schiller in his work The Aesthetic Education of Man, when he states that
the political problem it is necessary to take that path because freedom is reached through beauty, a thesis that
Hegel deepens in his classes, compiled in the essay On the Beautiful and Its Forms.

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