Finding beauty in the eyes of justice: A socio-religious perspective

Abstract

The subject of “beauty” and the “beautiful” is often found within the basic category of aesthetics and aesthetic education. In that regard, no philosophical work on aesthetic education is ever complete without the description of the category of beauty. Justice, on the other hand, is an innate quest for fullness of life. As a socio-religious construct, the notion of justice inherits a varied number of reflections, from which life may be ordered or grounded. Using a qualitative research approach, in the form of document analysis, this paper seeks to address the concepts of ‘beauty’ and ‘justice’, but without isolation, rather by linking them together in order to offer a socio-religious perspective in which to re-interpret and imagine the dialogue between beauty and justice.

Keywords

• aestatics
• beauty
• justice
• society
• religion