Tag: Aesthetics
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The argument from beauty is perhaps my favorite apologetic argument. While very powerful, it is also one of the least used. Peter Leithhart expounds on the apologetics of beauty here, offering keen and valuable insight. But if, as Augustine seemed to believe, man is created so as to respond to…
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Is beauty subjective or objective? The answer to that question is regarded by some philosophers as the “single most-prosecuted disagreement in the literature”. The popular conception of course is that beauty is subjective “in the eye of the beholder.”However, philosopher Arlyn Culwick argued in 2019 that the ancient transcendentals are…
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Noah McKay has an interesting apologetic Argument From Beauty here. It’s an abductive argument, meaning it concludes with probability, not certainty. Here is his argument which he defends at length; McKay does a credible job of presenting his argument and defending it against objections. It’s worth reading in entirety. This…
Christian Apologetics 