ABSTRACT

This chapter brings together the themes of the book and proposes a relationship between Nature, Beauty, Art, and a moral or ethical life. Martha Nussbaum has written of the therapeutic role of philosophy, and I adapt some of her work to argue that without Beauty, and a sense of our immersion in Nature which is the foundation of our being, there can be no human flourishing. I conclude that if one feels good, feels, well, is happy, then this promotes one’s goodness in moral life and in the world, in general.