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Good Stuff from the Beeb: History of Ideas

6 May 2015 by Roger Cavanagh Leave a Comment

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Why are Things Beautiful?




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Filed Under: Life, The Universe… Tagged With: alienation, antikythera, aristotle, ayn rand, bbc, buddhism, civil disobedience, cultural transmission, Diotima's Ladder, Divine Watchmaker, Edmund Burke, Erving Goffman, feminine beauty, flourishing, four noble truths, free will, Golden Ratio, habeas corpus, harm principle, Hindu creation, History of Ideas, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Locke, Karl Marx, Lex Talionis, Marshall McCluhan, Max Weber, medium is the message, Noam Chomsky, personal identity, Protestant ethic, Rene Descartes, selfishness, technology, Thomas Aquinas, veil of ignorance, william paley
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Executed between 1621 and 1622. Bernini was only 23 years old at its completion. It depicts the Abduction of Proserpina, where Proserpina is seized and taken to the underworld by the god Pluto.
Unfinished sculpture of a man and a woman in the Accademia Gallery of Florence
Unfinished sculpture by Michelangelo of a man and a woman in the Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze.

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