ABSTRACT
This section provides a concluding comment via a brief reflection on the connection between the good and the beautiful in the ancient Greek context. The moral-aesthetic meanings of kalon come together in social reactions of honour and shame, hence more generally in the facts of our appearance before each other. The complex semantic profile of the term reveals the close connection between ontology and phenomenology, being and appearance. Al-Ghazālī partly shares the modern distrust of appearances, but in his account of love the chasm is sealed, with God replacing the human community as ideal observer and source of status.
