Review: Beauty by Roger Scruton - The Guardian.
Roger Scruton: BEAUTY. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2011 A short selection of some interesting ideas: PREFACE: - Beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it. (XI). - Beauty is a real an universal value, one anchored in.
Roger Scruton has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the philosophical musings surrounding beauty in this book. Rather than attempting to to exactly define what beauty is he takes a different route, striving to help the reader work through how beauty relates to man and what the significance of that relationship is. Scruton leans heavily on Kant, never quite affirming.
Beauty and Desecration We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness. Roger Scruton. Spring 2009. The Social Order. Arts and Culture. A t any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked an educated person to describe the goal of poetry, art, or music, “beauty” would have been the answer. And if you had asked what the point of that was, you would have learned that beauty.
In conclusion, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction lives up to its name. In a lucid and clear way, Scruton introduces the reader to key aesthetic works while making a compelling argument for why beauty matters. Scruton’s own personal position provides a starting point for further discussion on an important topic for theology and the arts.
Why Beauty Matters - Philosopher Roger Scruton presents a provocative essay on the importance of beauty in the arts and in our lives. Scruton argues, art, architecture and music turned their backs on beauty, making a cult of ugliness and leading us into a spiritual desert. (2009).
Mr. Scruton seems to place a lot of importance on religion, and disdain on utilitarianism. I can see why then he would tend to ignore that things like the beauty in the human body and face, or serene natural vistas have extreme evolutionary pressure to be pleasurable. I'd argue that beauty is much more likely to be a reflection of conditions.
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