During the process of reading through relevant (and at times irrelevant) literature, you are bound to run into ideas that are beautiful on their own. Perhaps these might not even be ideas, but ‘just’ thoughts from the author. However, I figure it’s worth\u00a0irregularly\u00a0mentioning those that stick with me due to them being relevant, beautiful or simply quite funny.<\/p>\n
So, we start with a quote from Irish born (1694) philosopher Francis Hutcheson who wrote the following in the preface of his work:-<\/p>\n
‘In the \ufb01rst Treatise, the Author perhaps in some Instances has gone\u00a0too far, in supposing a greater Agreement of Mankind in their\u00a0Sense of Beauty, than Experience will\u0001 con\ufb01rm; but all he is solicitous\u00a0about is to shew, \u201cThat there is some Sense of Beauty natural to Men;\u0001 that we \ufb01nd\u0001 as great an Agreement of Men in their Relishes of Forms,\u00a0as in their external Senses which all agree to be natural; and that pleasure\u00a0or Pain, Delight or Aversion, are naturally join\u2019d to their Perceptions.’<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of\u00a0Beauty and Virtue (1725, p.10);<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"