In Defense of Beauty - Ruth Lorand

In Defense of Beauty
Ruth Lorand

"At a recent ASA meeting, upon expressing my interest in beauty and its relation to art, a colleague responded: “Oh, beauty is such a difficult concept, and it is so eighteenth century….” I certainly agree with the former part, but I entirely disagree with the latter. Indeed, beauty is a difficult concept. In fact, these are the concluding words of Hippias Major, the dialogue which Plato devoted to an inquiry into the concept of beauty. The interest in beauty was revived in the eighteenth century after its wide spread dismissal by the rationalists of the seventeenth century. Is it then an eighteenth-century concept? Beauty is as relevant now as it was at the time of Plato and of Kant simply because it has never ceased to be of interest in everyday life..."

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