Beauty
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Beauty
What makes something beautiful? — Schiller & Architecture
youtube.comIt is that the attribute we call beauty is of two kinds. One is a parochial kind of attractiveness, local to a species, to a culture or to an individual. The other is unrelated to any of those: it is universal, and as objective as the laws of physics. Creating either kind of beauty requires knowledge; but the second kind requires knowledge with uni
... See moreDavid Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
And there’s a lot of positive evidence. It’s not that there’s some metaphysical concept of beauty that rules the world — beauty is a human experience. It’s something that has to do with how humans react to the world and perceive the world. And it’s notoriously thought to be subjective, but it’s not entirely subjective. There’s a very rich history o... See more
On Being • Beauty as a Compass for Truth
“Some people are just nice to look at, but they’re not muses.”
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness,