Tag: Beauty
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Philosophical Improv no. 2: Education Thesis
In this short video, I explore the thesis that the virtues must be ‘raised up’ to the point of beauty. In my forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, I discuss the important connection between goodness and beauty. To view other episodes in this series, you can visit my YouTube channel. I’m a Ph.D.-trained philosophical…
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Philosophical improv no. 1: Manifestation Thesis
In this short YouTube video, I explore the way in which radiance manifests itself. In my forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, I discuss the important connection between goodness and beauty.
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Mountain life (An excerpt from Radiance)
A short excerpt from Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time. The book is in progress. * Out the window, snow begins falling on sienna; it is collecting fast. Until now, it has rained warmly three days straight and the ravines, dug out and meandering down the mountainside, had been rolling with sound, the green beneath the…
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Plotinus on beauty (an exhortation)
In “On Beauty” (Ennead 1.6), Plotinus invites us to consider “what it is that attracts the gaze of those who look at something, and turns and draws them to it and makes them enjoy the sight.” He thinks this is a particularly good question into what makes something beautiful when it is so called (his answer will…
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Lines composed the morning after the Noreaster (Plotinus, Ennead 1.6)
Lovers love the beautiful. Plotinus inquires what about the beautiful makes it so. Early on in Ennead 1, he says (pace the Stoics) that it is not the mere proportions of the thing that make whatever the thing is beautiful, hence not the proper relations of part to whole. For cannot a line be beautiful and cannot a…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 