Beauty
Tags
en
cegep/2
Word count
107 words
Reading time
1 minute
- Roger Scruton: gives joy and comfort
- Albert Einstein: is part of shared values of society, forms communities and prevents people from feeling isolated
- Northrop Frye: the pursuit of beauty is dangerous because it inflates ego
- H. P. Lovecraft: is everything that defines us as humans
- Vladimir Nabokov: lets us peek into other worlds and escape to the aesthetic bliss of ecstasy
- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: makes us look up to the Divine (transcendence)
- Conceals danger
- Aestheticism
- Branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty and art
- Art for beauty's sake
- Anti-consumerism
Ajitani Hifumi