For us the beauty of individuality and the individuality of beauty comprise an indivisible unity. What separates us most profoundly from Plato is that for him individuality and beauty are divisible, and it is precisely love which draws the dividing line between them: it encompasses beauty and leaves individuality out.

XREF: Contrasts the modern valuation of individual uniqueness with Plato's classical ideal where beauty is general and love abstracts from particular persons.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 575