What does it mean to think beautifully? Perhaps it means that our thoughts are elegantly expressed. Perhaps it means that our thoughts are focused on the nature of beauty. And perhaps it means that beauty can be a lens for all thinking about whatever is true and whatever is good. We hope to express things […]
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Form, Beauty, and Euclid’s Elements (part 1)
I want to begin exploring, or perhaps recovering, a way of understanding the discipline of mathematics as one that integrally involves a perspective of beauty, not a “beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture,” (Bertrand Russell) but a beauty that irradiates from the form of anything that can be understood as having being. […]
“Psalms & Beauty” (Podcast Review)
“Sometimes we think anger is the energy that brings about social change, and anybody who needs social change would understand and be sympathetic to anger, of course. But to think that behind that is a thirst for something beautiful…for the angry person’s family, for their group, for themselves, for the world. At the end of […]
“Beauty & Desecration” (Lecture Review)
“The search for beauty is the search for home, for a place where you can be at home with yourself, and others, but in particular where you belong. … That means seeing yourself as an other, from the outside. … You want to be at home with what you find. This search for being at […]