On beauty and being just

On Beauty and Being Just

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-134

  Scarry, Elaine ^a  

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1. The translation used here, and whenever Dante's Vita nuova is quoted, is Mark Musa (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), xv, xvi, 29, 30.
2. Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin (New York: Vintage-Random House, 1982), 1:706-7.
3. Simone Weil, "Love of the Order of the World," in Waiting for God, trans. Emma Craufurd, introd. Leslie A. Fiedler (New York: Harper & Row, 1951), 180.
4. Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition, ed. R. W Franklin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1998), 785. Variants in wording in other editions are given on the same page. My thanks to Helen Vendler for bringing to my attention this poem as well as "The Beginning of the End," the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins I several times quote.
5. I am using Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey, introd. Bernard Knox (New York: Penguin, 1996), Bk. 6, 168-72, 175-86. Most lines cited are from Book 6; occasionally a phrase from Book 5 or 7 enters.
6. Augustine, De Musica, trans. W. F. Jackson Knight, in Philosophies of Art and Beauty, ed. Albert Hofstadter and Richard Kuhns (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), 196.
7. The English words "energetic" and "melting" occur in various translations of the Sixteenth Letter of Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters, such as that by Reginald Snell (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1954) and again that by Elizabeth M. Wilkinson and L. A. Willoughby (Oxford: Clarendon, 1967).
8. Physicist Thomas Appelquist, for example, has told me that in particle physics the beauty of a theory is taken to be predictive of its truth; experimental astrophysicist Paul Horowitz, on the other hand, counsels new physicists not to assume that if they come up with a "pretty" theory, it must be true. Exponents of both positions can no doubt be found within each of the two sciences.
9. Indeed, at the very moment when beauty was being banished from universities for distracting from social justice, scholars trying to make problems of social justice visible were sometimes accused of "reenacting" the cruelty by making suffering available to the reader's gaze.
10. Ps. 90:17 (King James Version).
11. So odd does such a prohibition sound that it may appear I am inventing the idea for the sake of the argument; yet over the last fifteen years, many students, even the brightest and most good-hearted among them, have (as a result of the general prohibition on beauty) spoken in their papers about the way a poet or novelist reifies a garden or a flower or a beautiful bird by his or her lavish regard.
12. I do not know whether it is possible for a worshiper to have mental pictures of Jesus or Artemis or Krishna or Buddha or Sarasvati, while withholding from mental view their beauty, but for the duration of the one sentence above, I will assume for the sake of argument that this is possible.
13. Immanuel Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, trans. John T. Goldthwait, (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1960). The terms listed here occur on 46-49 (passim), 60, 78, 93, 97.
14. Ernest Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing, 1971), s.v. "welcome."
15. The conclusions reached about the etymology of "fair" in C. T. Onions's Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Oxford: Oxford Clarendon, 1966)
16. Klein's Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary, and Eric Partridge's Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (New York: Macmillan, 1966) are all in accord with one another, though it is only Klein who directly links the word "fair" to the word for "pact" by focusing on the verb "fay."
17. This is again the W. F. Jackson Knight translation of De Musica, 186, 190, 191, 194, 201. Augustine perceives "equality" not just in a formal feature such as symmetry but in color: a patch of blue (or green or red or yellow) continually iterates itself across the surface it occupies.
18. The importance of a doctrinal location is visible in the debates about conscientous objection. See, for example, the special issue of Rutgers Law Review 21, no. 7 (Fall 1966) on "Civil Disobedience and the Law."
19. Bruce Russett, Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), 59.
20. J. S. Morrison and J. F. Coates, The Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
21. See also Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971).
22. "Concerning the Poet," in Where Silence Reigns: Selected Prose by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. G. Craig Houston, foreword by Denise Levertov (New York: New Directions, 1978), 65-66.
23. Mary Ryan, "The American Parade: Representations of the Nineteenth-Century Social Order," in The New Cultural History, ed. Lynn Hunt (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989), 131-53.
24. Rowing as a vehicle of democracy in the United States is argued by Helen A. Cooper in Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures (New Haven: Yale University Press and Yale Art Gallery, 1996), 24-25, 36, 44.
25. Cassius, Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnati, Lately Instituted by the Major-Generals, Brigadiers, and Other Officers of the American Army, Proving that it Creates, A Race of Hereditary Patricians, or Nobility, and Interspersed with Remarks on its Consequences to the Freedom and Happiness in theRepublick, reprinted in Anglo-American Antimilitary Tracts 1697-l830, ed. R. Kohn (New York: Arno Press, 1979).
26. The beautiful fabric or canopy of military equality is spoken of by secretary of war General Knox in his 1786 proposal to Congress for a militia, quoted in the 1863 tract by J. Willard, Plan for the General Arrangement of the Militia of the United States (Boston: J. Wilson & Sons), 29;
27. and again by William Sumner in 1826, A Paper on the Militia Presented to the Hon. James Barbour, Secretary of War (Washington: B. Homans, 1833), 9.
28. See also Ransom Gillet's address to the House of Representatives, Congressional Globe, 24th Cong., 1st sess., 1836, 235, 237.
29. Weil, "Love of the Order of the World," in Waiting for God, 159.
30. Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good over Other Concepts: The Leslie Stephen Lecture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), 2.
31. Andreas Eshete, conversation with author, January 1998.
32. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971), 83-87. Other references throughout Part Two to John Rawls's ideas about fairness can be found on 12, 115.
33. Richard Wollheim, "On Drawing an Object," in On Art and Mind (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974), 3-30.