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Advisory Board

Thomas Pogge, Philosophy Advisor

Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University & Professorial Fellow Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics

James Silk, Legal/Human Rights Advisor

Clinical Professor of Law, Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic & Executive Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School

Nicholas Fiori, Education Advisor

Teacher Preparation & Education Studies, Yale University

References: Social Thought on Beauty & Justice.

Classical

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Plato, Republic

Plato, Symposium

Immanuel Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment

George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on Aesthetics

Modern

Wayne C. Booth, The Company We Keep, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988

Stephen Bungay, Beauty and Truth: A Study of Hegel's Aesthetics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987

Arthur Danto, The Abuse of Beauty, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003

Rhett Diessner, "Engagement with beauty scale: validation of measures of natural, artistic, and moral beauty," The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007

Martha Nussbaum , Poetic Justice, Boston: Beacon Press, 1995

Bindu Puri and Heiko Sievers, Reason, Morality, and Beauty: Essays on the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007

Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990

Elisabeth Schellekens, Aesthetics and Morality, New York: Continuum Books, 2007

"Empirical Relationship Between Beauty and Justice" Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 2008

Quotations

Beauty, since the dawn of Western civilization, has been one of the three ends of human

being: truth, beauty and the good. -Plato

The end of all virtues is beauty.-Aristotle

In encouraging the creation and enjoyment of beautiful things we are furthering democracy itself. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Address on The Museum of Modern Art, May, 1939)

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks. - George Eliot

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything, except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity. - Anton Chekhov

Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others. -Simone Weil

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. -John Muir

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, we paint the semblance of a form divine. - Matthew Prior

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.-Goethe

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. -John Keats

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.-Albert Einstein.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.- Rousseau