'The Republic' by Plato is an incredible work not only in the area of politics, but also in beauty and aesthetics. Plato reveals the deep importance of beauty in his allegory of the cave, and how to reject beauty is also to reject truth and knowledge. In this way, the 'war on beauty' is more than a mere cultural concern, but is a critical threat to the foundations of western civilization.

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BOOK LIST:

1. Dante, La Vita Nuova
2. Plato, Symposium
3. Dietrich von Hildebrand – Aesthetics, Vol. 1
4. Plato — Republic
5. Aristotle — Poetics
6. Edmund Burke — A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
7. Oscar Wilde – The Critic as Artist
8. St. Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologiae (aesthetic sections)
9. Hans Urs von Balthasar – The Glory of the Lord, Vol. 1
10. Joseph Ratzinger – Spirit of the Liturgy & On the Way to Jesus Chris
11. Immanuel Kant – Critique of Judgment
12. Friedrich Nietzsche – The Birth of Tragedy
13. T.S. Eliot – Notes Toward the Definition of Culture
14. Roger Scruton – Beauty
15. Kenneth Clark – Civilization
16. John Ruskin – The Stones of Venice
17.  Pope John Paul II – Letter to Artists