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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run4-c1-c0-c5Pluralism versus universal beauty standards
Debates whether aesthetic and architectural principles are objectively universal or necessarily plural, with existential stakes.
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- There is not one singular, verifiable system of beauty, or architecture, or god, and I fear what would happen if there were.Steenson's direct refutation of Alexander's late-life position on empirically verifiable order; articulated in context of 2020 authoritarianism and Black Lives Matter.
- Order, beauty, and architecture are empirically verifiable and connected to GodAlexander's late-life position (c. 2016) claiming empirical verification of connection between Christian God and architectural order; Steenson explicitly rejects this as dangerous.