Ep. 289: Aesthetic Sense Theory: Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Pentagon Is Better Than the Square
Hutchinson: We're in particularly sensitive to uniformity amidst variety, right? And so it might help, be helpful to give an example. He gives some examples, which make that much clearer than it is in the stanford article. A pentagon is more beautiful than a square. It's got more variety with the same uniformity. More variety just means a larger number of sides.
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