The question is, are we missing something by not talking about beauty?
On a less scholarly note, my spring break was filled with beauty. We had a cabin in the mountains, where there was still two feet of snow.
Elaine Scarry insists that talking about beauty is the way to justice. She admits that the beauty of a palm tree cannot be articulated any more so than I can articulate the sense of climbing a mountain in the perfect snow, but she claims that attention to and discussion of beauty makes us want the right things. From reading her book, I dont exactly get the feeling that she believes that beauty is synonymous with an objective truth, but it sounds like she sees it as a sort of harmony.
My articulation of the beauty I experience is never sufficient. Might it be better to leave it as experience?
Kierstin
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