Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)We seek beauty because it seems to promise something beyond what we have already seen and what we already are. We seek beauty everywhere we can find it — in art, in literature, in the clouds and stars, in flowers and animals. But perhaps most significantly, we seek beauty in our fellow human beings.
Every human being contains a unique world created by the mere existence of a living, growing, reflective consciousness. We want to see these other worlds, we want to experience the beauty of them — a beauty that is different from the world we ourselves contain and inhabit.
What is Disagreement? – Part IV
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
