Conatus: REVISED EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

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The beautiful gives us the sense that we are at home in the world. Remembering our Aristotelian soul, a key ingredient is our way of being in the world. If we find that way of being to be pleasant, then, arguably, this is beauty — we feel at home in the world — we feel connected to the cosmos, to nature and with our own bodies. Thus the word beauty leads us into a broad aesthetic that describes a right way of living — the ‘good life’.

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