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What is Beauty?

The late philosopher Roger Scruton wrote a helpful short book on beauty and gives us 6 statements (platitudes) to help us understand what beauty actually is: Roger Scruton’s 6 Platitudes on Beauty 1. Beauty pleases us.2. One thing can be more beautiful than another.3. Beauty is always a reason for attending to the thing that […]

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Writings on Christianity

What is Beauty?

This Saturday our meetup discussion group is discussing BEAUTY together. I’ve enjoyed preparing for this discussion and thinking about it a bit. Here’s some of the questions we’ll be thinking through together: 1. When we say a thing is beautiful, what do we mean?2. What makes a thing beautiful and a thing ugly?3. Is beauty […]