Beauty

References and further reading

	Brink, D.O. (1989) Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch. 2. (Clearer and more detailed explanation of varieties of realism and antirealism with reference to values than can be found in the aesthetic literature.)
	Hume, D. (1757) ‘Of the Standard of Taste’, in Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays, ed. J. Lenz, New York: Macmillan, 1965. (Admirably clear discussion of criteria of accuracy of the supposed sense of beauty.)
	Hutcheson, F. (1725) An Inquiry concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design, ed., with intro. and notes by P. Kivy, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1993. (The fullest formulation of the eighteenth-century sense of beauty theory.)
	Kant, I. (1790) Critique of Judgment, trans. J.H. Bernard, New York: Macmillan, 1951. (The first part, ‘Critique of Aesthetic Judgment’, contains Kant’s theory of beauty and sublimity.)
	Margolis, J. (1976) ‘Robust Relativism’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 35: 37–46, reprinted in J. Margolis, Philosophy Looks at the Arts, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1978, esp. 387–401. (Brief exposition and defence of aesthetic relativism regarding aesthetic judgments and critical interpretations.)
	Moore, G.E. (1903, 1959) Principia Ethica, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch. 4, ‘The Ideal’. (A classic statement of the intuitionist position regarding moral and aesthetic value.)
	Mothersill, M. (1984) Beauty Restored, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Contains Mothersill’s theory and discussions of historical positions regarding beauty; useful bibliography.)
	Plato (c. 380s) Phaedrus, trans. R. Hackford, in The Collected Dialogues of Plato, ed. E. Hamilton and H. Cairns, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963, 244–257. (Plato’s ideas about love and beauty are presented mythopoeically in Socrates’ speech to the god of love.)
	Plato (c. 380s) Symposium, trans. M. Joyce, in The Collected Dialogues of Plato, ed. E. Hamilton and H. Cairns, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963, 209d–212a. (The classic account of the ascent of the soul to the vision of absolute beauty.)
	Plotinus (c. 260) Enneads, trans. S. McKenna, ed. J. Dillon, New York: Viking Penguin, 1991. (See Ennead I, 6th tractate, ‘Beauty’; and Ennead V, 8th tractate, ‘On the Intellectual Beauty’.)
	Shaftesbury, A. (1711) Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. J.M. Robertson, Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964. (Shaftesbury’s idea of disinterested pleasure is set forth in Treatise IV, Book 2, Part 2, section 1.)
	Sircello, G. (1975) A New Theory of Beauty, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (A mostly non-technical exposition of the theory discussed in §5.)
	Sircello, G. (1989) Love and Beauty, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Links the author’s theory of beauty to an equally ambitious theory of love.)