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Aesthetics Today: Plotinus and everyday aesthetics (and architecture)

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For Plotinus ( Ennead I.6, On Beauty , MacKenna translation) the beauty of the sensuous realm is hardly the most important kind of beauty. ...

Aesthetics Today: Plotinus and everyday aesthetics (and architecture) Wednesday, September 17, 2014 Plotinus and everyday aesthetics (and architecture) For Plotinus ( Ennead I.6, On Beauty , MacKenna translation) the beauty of the sensuous realm is hardly the most important kind of beauty. Yet he has something valuable to say about it. He begins his discussion of beauty by noting that there is both beauty of sight and of hearing (which includes music) in the sensuous world, as also a beauty of the realm above sense, including the beauty of human virtues. He will quickly turn to focus on this n

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