Beauty is not an ornament to the good life, it is at its heart
Why does the hand want to draw what the eye sees as beautiful? Why do we respond to beauty by creating the beautiful?
by Nick Riggle
Nick Riggle is a philosopher and writer. You can find some of his work in Philosophers’ Imprint, The Philosophical Quarterly, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. His third book is This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive (Basic Books, 2022).
Written by Nick Riggle