The Greeks had magnificent works of art, but they never developed an aesthetics in the modern sense. In Heidegger's view, this does not mean that the Greeks just wallowed in a murky brew of "lived experiences" which were supported neither by knowledge nor by concepts. "On the contrary, they had such an originally mature and luminous knowledge, such a passion for knowledge, that in their luminous state of knowing they had no need of "aesthetics'".⁶