Letter from London: A Razor’s Edge

Maybe it was in defiance of the latest rumour doing the rounds that beauty had become a kind of luxury of sorts, something inaccessible to those without funds, that sent me on a quest last week. Classical Western philosophy always claimed beauty was one of the three major components in human understanding. This was alongside good and truth. By the twentieth century, it was considered expendable, certainly non-essential, though no one bothered to tell many of us that. This was presumably only for those inside those intensely esoteric philosophical circles. More

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