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Ep. 287: Roger Scruton on Beauty (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Constructivism of Fearfulness

The way that fearfulness is in an object seems like it's different from the way that color is within an object. Marcus: We could say there are certain fundamental things built into cognition such that certain things are beautiful and others aren't. Some people's tastes are more educated than others, so we would have to have to talk about this in terms of if you had more mature, educated aesthetic capacities, this is how it would seem.

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