77 – Coperthwaite Chapter 2: “Beauty”

In this episode, Joshua and Mike tackle Bill Coperthwaite’s discussion of beauty. The focus of this chapter is relatively narrow, zeroing in on the intangible aspects of beauty such as the production context: Who made this? Under what circumstances was it made? Etc. Coperthwaite argues that the process of deepening your knowledge of a thing enriches your sense of its beauty (or ugliness, as the case may be). When we fill our lives with things that are truly beautiful instead of only superficially so, the stuff we use on a daily basis becomes that much more meaningful. So meaningful, that we might even find ourselves apologizing to a broken teacup.

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77 – Coperthwaite Chapter 2: “Beauty” is an episode from The Mortise & Tenon Podcast by Mortise & Tenon Magazine.

This episode is 00:49:29 long.

This episode was published on Sep 17, 2025.

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