Sp23T Beauty (Hybrid: Zoom)

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4/16/2024-6/4/2024

1:30 PM-3:00 PM EDT on Tue

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[NEW COURSE] What is beauty? Is it only in the eye of the beholder? Is there some concept that can capture it, or is it just what pleases? Should we distinguish natural beauty from art works? Using Santayana’s book we will explore these aesthetics. This course is not intended as a history of art nor as art appreciation. We may end with more questions than answers. Discussion, Lecture, Reading

  • Required Text: The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana, ISBN 0486202380

     

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Tom Low is neither a professional philosopher nor an academic but has been a serious reader since his teens. He has led courses at Osher on figures as diverse as Plato, Montaigne, Thoreau, William James, Marcus Aurelius, and the great economists.