Why Are Things Beautiful?
A History of Ideas
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The Property of Beauty
The question is about what beauty is as a property, maybe of things in the world. It seems to lay claim to a response in us, and I think by examining that response you begin to get at or track which things are beautiful. When I mentioned the hippopotamus, it wasn't entirely frivolous, because the examples you gave, Songbird, you said? Garden.
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