In Our Time
Beauty
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Further Reading
Dates refer to the date of publication, if applicable and known; in other cases they refer to the date the piece was written.
Primary Sources
Plato, c.390 BC, Hippias Major
Plato, c.380 BC, Symposium, especially 210-12
Plato, c.370 BC, Phaedrus, especially 245-57
Plotinus, c.280AD, Enneads 1.6 and 5.8
Nashe, T., 1600, ‘Summer’s Last Will and Testament’ (‘In Time of Pestilence’)
Shakespeare, W., 1601, Hamlet, passim, especially Act V Scene 1
Hutcheson, F., 1725, ‘An Enquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design’
Hume, D., 1757, ‘Of the Standard of Taste’
Keats, J., 1820, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
Nietzsche, F., 1872, The Birth of Tragedy
Nietzsche, F., 1882, The Gay Science, especially 276
Yeats, W.B., 1921, ‘Easter, 1916’
Secondary Sources
Hobbs, A., 2000, Plato and the Hero, passim and especially pp.220-30 on the relations between goodness and beauty in Plato and Plotinus. Cambridge University PressNehamas, A., 1985, Nietzsche: Life as Literature. Cambridge, Massachusets
Berys Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes (eds), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics (Routledge, 2002)
Alex Neill and Aaron Ridley (eds), The Philosophy of Art (McGraw-Hill, 1995)
David Cooper (ed), Aesthetics: the classic readings (Blackwells, 1997)