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	Podcast:		The Philosopher's Zone - Program podcast
	Episode:		Beauty: aesthetic or moral ideal?
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:28:27
	Publish Date:		2022-05-08 07:30:00
	Description:		These days, beauty is a moral imperative, an ideal to live by, and one according to which we judge ourselves and others. As a result, we increasingly shape our identities around our bodies – and not just our actual bodies with their lumps and bumps, but our imaginary future bodies: thin, smooth and firm. Gradually our notion of the good life comes to be centred on physical appearance, and this causes a range of harms which until now, philosophers have not taken seriously enough.
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