Beauty

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 Press

Nehamas, 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)