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Why Are Things Beautiful?
A History of Ideas
The History of Ideas Podcast
Darwin was deeply puzzled by what he absolutely agreed were beautiful features of animals and plants. In ancient Greek, there is the same word, cologne, which means both something that is beautiful to the senses and also something that's morally fine and honorable. Barry Smith: I want to look at the responses we have to the things we consider beautiful,. Vicki Neerland: How come so many apparently very bad people enjoy music and art and so on? Jihops: What do you think about beauty in mathematics?
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