Ep. 287: Roger Scruton on Beauty (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On Beauty (2009), ch. 1-4. What truths about beauty does any theory of beauty have to acknowledge? Scruton argues that appreciating beauty is a cognitive act: something we argue about, and not just "in the eye of the beholder."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the partially examined life podcast by some guys who are at one point |
| 0:11.4 | set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. |
| 0:15.0 | Our question for episode 287 is what is beauty? |
| 0:18.4 | We read chapters one through four of Roger Schruppen's book Beauty from 2009. |
| 0:23.2 | For more information please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com. |
| 0:27.6 | This is Mark Linton-Meier, a body considered as such in Patterson, Wisconsin. |
| 0:31.6 | This is Seth Paschinen and my judgment is binding on everybody from Austin, Texas. |
| 0:38.0 | This is Wes Aulone, this interestably interested in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:43.4 | This is Dylan Casey still trying to sleep by desire for ribeye by staring at the picture |
| 0:48.5 | of a cow in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:51.6 | We are back to aesthetics. |
| 0:53.0 | Folks liked the reissue of our first aesthetics episode and this will be the first of two on this book |
| 1:00.8 | because it's a long book. |
| 1:02.1 | It's a good book. |
| 1:03.1 | It's sort of a survey book but it's not a history book. |
| 1:05.5 | I mean it's a piece of philosophy. |
| 1:07.0 | He's just expounding on these concepts of beauty. |
| 1:11.8 | The second half of the book that we're going to talk about next time is artistic beauty but |
| 1:15.3 | this is all, well there's sort of an overview chapter and then human beauty, natural beauty |
| 1:19.3 | and everyday beauty. |
| 1:21.3 | All the stuff that is not art. |
| 1:23.4 | You guys like me pleasantly surprised by this book or did you go in thinking maybe I'm |
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