I set out to respond to Dostoevsky’s proposition “will beauty save the world?” in late 2022 and dedicated six months to meditating on this topic. I wrote over sixty pages in reply, and now in mid 2024 I am revisiting this collection of essays to clarify some ideas further.

In short, beauty will not save the world because the world never needed saving. It is preserved however, through beauty which has a penetrating salvation like quality.

In reaching this conclusion I was led down a path upon which I was faced with competingly large undefined concepts such as unity, duality, trinity, time, space, life, death, consciousness, the human condition, free will, justice, truth, and love. In order to capture beauty I needed to define, at least relatively and intuitively the aforementioned ideas. I also touch on the roles of religion, faith, will, science and art.

Throughout this collection of essays I attempt to map philosophical arguments and concepts onto multi-dimensional figures and align empirical phenomena with established science.