Programme
Aesthetics Reading Group: On Beauty
Ormston House is hosting a weekly reading group on Aesthetics. We are inviting a small group to join us every Saturday lunchtime to discuss the ideas of selected key texts (or extracts from texts) starting with Module #1: On Beauty.
The reading group will follow the Alternative Table of Contents from Aesthetics – A Comprehensive Anthology edited by Steven M. Cahn & Aaron Meskin with additional texts suggested by participants. All levels of experience are welcome, from the novice to the seasoned philosopher.
Texts will be available to collect a week in advance from the Ormston House Reading Room. For further information or to book a place, please contact Chris Hayes at info@ormstonhouse.com.
Schedule:
Saturday 11 January, 12pm
Ennead I, vi
Plotinus
Saturday 18 January, 12pm
Characterisitics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
Third Earl of Shaftesbury
Saturday 25 January, 12pm
An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Francis Hutcheson
Saturday 1 February, 12pm
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke
Saturday 8 February, 12pm
Critique of Judgement
Immanuel Kant
Saturday 15 February, 12pm
Beauty Restored
Mary Mothersill
Saturday 22 February, 12pm
An Argument about Beauty
Susan Sontag
Saturday 1 March, 12pm
Beauty in the Expanded Field of Painting
James Voorhies
A light lunch will be served.