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Christopher Barlow
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inquiry. Again, I could spend pages and pages discussing this. Instead, I will leave you with this. It is a quote from a more modern thinker and philosopher, Roger Scruton, wrestling with the notions of Beauty and Art: Much that is said about beauty and its importance in our lives ignores the minimal beauty of an unpretentious street, a nice pair of shoes or a tasteful piece of wrapping paper, as though those things belonged to a different order of value from a church by Bramante or a Shakespeare sonnet. Yet these minimal beauties are far more important to our daily lives, and far more intricately involved in our own rational decisions, than the great works of art which (if we are lucky) occupy our leisure hours. They are part of the context in which we live our lives, and our desire for harmony, fittingness and civility is both expressed and confirmed in them. Moreover, the great works of architecture often depend for their beauty on the humble context that these lesser beauties provide (S cruton 12).
Works Cited: Hugo, Victor. Notre Dame De Paris. Ed. William Allan Neilson. Trans. Frederic Shoberl. Vol. 12. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1917. Print. The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. Scruton, Roger. Beauty. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.