Things are copies of the Ideas • Le Banquet, de Platon Sensible beauty is an image of Eternal Beauty that any Soul has already contemplated once • Le Banquet, de Platon• Poétique - Aristote - Grec Happiness is a kind of meditation • Ethique X - le vrai bonheur - Aristote• Poétique - Aristote - Grec Metaphysics is the study of first principles • Métaphysique A - Aristote - Grec The essence of the things is in the same ones, and gives them form • (Not sure what book) Beauty results from certain proportions, harmonious measures and rythms. • Le Banquet, de Platon The wise man must take part in the life of the City • La République - Platon - Grec Metaphysics is the science of what is, as it is: being as being • (Not sure w