![]() ![]() Even as our public schools move further and further away from their connection to a universal moral code, the world of art embraces an aesthetic that privileges ugliness over beauty, nihilism over form, and radical self-expression over the pursuit of higher truth.” “More and more in our modern and postmodern culture these two concepts (beauty and truth) have been separated both from each other and from their individual connection to a divine source of Beauty and Truth: a separation that is perhaps most evident in the twin realms of education and the arts. Lewis scholar Louis Markos connects the twin fates of truth and beauty in contemporary culture, although showing that they in fact diverge: ![]() ![]() Purchase, The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1925 (25.189.2) Beauty: A Gentle Introductionīeauty – visible form of the good, friends with its companion the true – may be the most accessible path to truth in what has otherwise been dubbed our “post-truth” society. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. : Attributed to the Achilles Painter, Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar), ca. ![]()
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