On Beauty and Being Just
by Elaine Scarry · first published 1999
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"In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms."--BOOK JACKET. "Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance f
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Have been reading the recommended "On Beauty and Being Just" by Elaine Scarry. She argues that there is a continuum from physical beauty to mathematical symmetry and elegance to traffic laws to a representative democracy -- which is related to ancient Greek naval…
on “An Aesthetics Reading List for Programmers” ↗…Justice by John Rawls. Everyone talked about it, I hadn't read it. I do need to read it again. Natural Goodness by Philippa Foot. An argument for a more or less Aristotelian understanding of ethics. On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry. I find her writing on beauty more convincing than her attempt to tie it back to a development of a sense of justice.
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