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Single Idea 18544

[catalogued under 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty]

Full Idea

Maybe we can understand the 'beauty' of a building better if we describe it in another and less loaded way, as a form of fittingness or harmony.

Gist of Idea

Maybe 'beauty' is too loaded, and we should talk of fittingness or harmony

Source

Roger Scruton (Beauty: a very short introduction [2011], 1)

Book Reference

Scruton,Roger: 'Beauty: A Very Short Introduction' [OUP 2011], p.11


A Reaction

Almost everyone accepts the word 'beauty' for some things, such as a beautiful face, or goal, or steak. I remember a female interviewer writing that, reluctantly, the only appropriate word she could find for Nureyev's face was 'beautiful'.