R: Beauty Is Objective

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in the Calhoun Parlor

Jules Bastien-Lepage, Joan of Arc, 1879, oil on canvas, 254 x 279.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

In our party's first philosophical debate of the year, join us as we compete to define the meaning of beauty. Does beauty, as David Hume posits, exist "in the mind which contemplates them" or can it be reduced to science?