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The Line of Beauty

Essays on “beauty as an ethical phenomenon; the understanding of social life as pervaded by questions of our perceptions of one another; the interrogation of the idea of life as art; coming to grips with the ancient suggestion that beauty is itself our aim in living well and living as we ought.”

The Line of Beauty is a joint effort of Tara Isabella Burton and Dhananjay Jagannathan. https://lineofbeauty.substack.com/

The Line of Beauty in Kosmos

On Animate Intelligence, Loving Dogs, and More


Excerpts from essays at The Line of Beauty.


Published in Volume 2023 Issue 3

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

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