Beauty: A Very Short IntroductionBeauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, or profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, and chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object either in art, in nature, or the human form beautiful, and examining how we can compare differing judgments of