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Heather Widdows: Pretty Privilege Is Real
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When did "I resolve to be a better person" get replaced with "I resolve to tone my arms" in the register of resolutions?
For a long time, philosophy treated caring about how you look as proof you weren't serious. Heather Widdows, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, thinks philosophy was simply wrong. In Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal, she argues that beauty has stopped…