About

Beauty

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” — John Keats 1795-1821

Beautiful works of art, music, and literature—profound ideas, expressed beautifully—are too often dismissed as mere 'constructs', ephemeral manifestations of the will to power of their creator.

On this view, beauty is a mere mask—one that should be lifted to reveal the naked power behind it. We believe, by contrast, that beauty exists, that it transcends time and place, and that a life dedicated to appreciating it is a life worth living.

Ralston

College

is

a

bastion

for

discovering

beauty

in all its forms—in thought, in nature, in art, in community, in the past, in friendship—and for cultivating the virtues necessary to counter the onslaught of ugliness and superficiality, and to inspire those who will create the many works of beauty yet to be born.

We invite you to come to Savannah, one of America's most beautiful cities, to experience it here.

“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.”

Sir Roger Scruton

Podcasts

and

Events

Attend

Event 13th December 2024

Winter Harmony: A Seasonal Choral Concert - Friday, December 13th at 5:30PM

Attend

Event 5th December 2024

Epic Philosophy: What Did Virgil Believe? A Lecture by Dr David Butterfield - Thursday, December 5th at 5PM

Listen

Podcast 18th November 2024

We Live in the Flicker: T. S. Eliot and Dante on the Spaces Between

Listen

Podcast 13th November 2024

The Other Side of Despair: The Search for Meaning in T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'

Short
Courses

Challenge yourself to explore big questions, free from the lengthier demands of a degree, through our online short courses, on a range of humanities subjects.

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Humanities
MA

Spend a year in dialogue with life's most searching questions in an open-minded community in Greece and then beautiful Savannah.

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