Description
The quest for beauty/truth is a path toward liberation and joy. HEre aesthetics refers to how someone with love of beauty or the fine arts goes aboout his or her business, e.g., sensing, feeling, imaging, thinking and interacting. The concern for beauty and truth has a long history in human activity and was identified and became most prominent in the founder of "philos sophia" originating with Socrates. This surveywill introduce the student to the major writing in Western and Non-Western philosophy concerning the quest. Recommended for majors in the Arts and Philosophy and Religion.