Beauty, Fenestrality, Calling. A Contribution to the Current Aesthetic Debate

Among the plastic features housed within the nebulous conceptual realm of beauty, there is one that has not yet received due consideration. Yet its emergency occurs in a familiar setting: the discussion on the etymology of καλόν, beautiful, in Plato's Cratylus (416bd). This contribution can be understood as a continuation of the etymological play that Plato unfolds therein with τὸ καλόν; and its purpose is to demonstrate that the calling-summoning trait of beauty, especially in connection with the transcendental fenestration philosopheme, can prove to be speculatively fruitful for the contemporary aesthetic discourse. With this in mind, such aspect is then brought into interaction with those paradigmatic ingredients of beauty properly summarized by Remo Bodei in his work Le forme del bello (1995).