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Monday, May 09, 2011
Beauty
Philosopher Roger Scruton writes a profound and gracefully-written article on Beauty and Desecration, from City Journal.
He has a good BBC 1-hr long series on beauty as well. You have to follow the prompts for parts:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjhVaLbBglQ&feature=related
Also a good book called Beauty, or paperback called Beauty A Very Short Introduction.