A History of Ideas: The Golden Ratio
What links the shell of a Nautilus, Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ and the Pyramids? The Golden Ratio.
A History of Ideas: Simone de Beauvoir on Feminine Beauty
Is a woman born a woman? In her book ‘The Second Sex’, existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir says no.
A History of Ideas: Diotima’s Ladder And The Appreciation Of Beauty
Is lust the first rung on a ladder that leads to the appreciation of abstract beauty?
A History of Ideas: Edmund Burke on the Sublime
What is the difference between the beautiful and the sublime? This question was central to Edmund Burke’s ‘A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful’.