Beauty : Roger Scruton

Judging Beauty
Objectivity

Kant's claim is not that the judgement of taste is binding on everyone, but that it is presented as such, by the one who makes it.

When I describe something as beautiful I am describing it, not my feelings towards it
I am making a claim, and that seems to imply that others, if they see things aright, would agree with me.

Beauty, Roger Scruton

Blueprints : Anthropological Forms

We sense the reality of something precious and mysterious, which reaches out to us with a claim that is in some way not of this world.

This is no longer a person, but the 'mortal remains' of a person. And this thought fills us with a sense of the uncanny.



The body is being reclaimed for this world, by the rituals which acknowledge that it  also stands apart from it.

The human form is sacred for us because it bears the stamp of our embodiment.

Beauty, Roger Scruton

Botanical traces with leper graves
Cyanotype material on paper 1400x2400cm