Books by John Armstrong

The Secret Power of Beauty

by John Armstrong

The modern way of thinking about beauty is to consider it a diversion. People apologise for finding someone attractive because we think it’s superficial… Armstrong goes back to a much earlier view held by Greek philosophers, which was that our connection to beauty is an interest in goodness more generally. It’s a good starting point for being a decent human being and that is not at all a modern day version of beauty.

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