* Is beauty wise, socrates? * Or rather, I will put the question more clearly: We know, do we not, that which is wise must also be good? * Certainly. * And what is good must also be beautiful? * True. * Then where there is wisdom there is goodness and beauty. * Certainly. * But where there is no wisdom there is no goodness. And where there is no goodness there is no beauty. Nor is this only true of the matter which we were discussing, but of all others as well. * I agree. * And therefore, where there is no music, we shall find neither wisdom nor goodness, nor beauty. * I dare say. * And that which has no music is unpleasing to the ear. But the unpleasing is the disagreeable, and the disagreeable is the evil, and therefore in music there is the greatness of goodness, and beauty, and wisdom, and lastly, in all that knowledge which relates to the music and harmony of the soul, which we have escaped to the end of our argument, in that, I fancy, you would place justice. * 19. "And so, glaucon," I said, the cause of every thing, which you want to find, has been found ?" * Certainly," he said. * "And is not that cause beauty?" * "I do not understand you," he said. * "The cause of all things has the name of beauty.”

I’m reminded more of this Fry and Laurie sketch than I am of Plato, to be honest.

https://youtu.be/-v79Pw21I8s

That’s a great sketch, thanks for sharing!

There are some awkward jumps there to the topic of music, and I suspect it lacks coherence but I didn't want to re-read to the point of fatigue.

That said, the passage and its idea sure are beautiful!

So a series of sentences with no underlying meaning, written in the style of a socratic dialogue? x)

Plato would never write this crap.

New dialogues aren't so hard. They are rehashes of old dialogues. New ideas are hard.