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Beauty links as well as divides us, supplying social connections and experience. But what exactly is beauty and why does it move us? “The first real problem I faced in my life was that of beauty,” wrote the poet-playwright-novelist Yukio Mishima, in Temple of the Golden Pavilion as he pondered beauty’s relevance, meanings, and the spell it cast over him. Beauty is complicated by the word beauty itself. Limited or overloaded, beauty has been celebrated as essential or denounced as irrelevant. The existence of beauty has been challenged, called a search for Eldorado. Some find no beauty in life, a recurring motif in subcultures, music lyrics, and the notes left by suicides. Others argue that common sense and experience reveal the reality and centrality of beauty in our lives, that beauty expresses a basic spiritual reality. Some philosophers claim that the qualities and meanings of beauty will remain a mystery, that it is an ineffable construction of nature, mind and culture. The interdisciplinary beauty ‘project’ will explore, assess, and map a number of core themes.
The conference is part of the ‘Ethos’ series of research projects, which in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.