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Different types of beauty
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:44 am
by Philosophy Explorer
Would you agree there are different kinds of beauty, each to be appreciated in their own individual way? And would you also agree that beauty is subjective in nature?
PhilX
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 5:08 am
by tbieter
Philosophy Explorer wrote:Would you agree there are different kinds of beauty, each to be appreciated in their own individual way? And would you also agree that beauty is subjective in nature?
PhilX
No and No.
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 5:25 am
by thedoc
Philosophy Explorer wrote:Would you agree there are different kinds of beauty, each to be appreciated in their own individual way? And would you also agree that beauty is subjective in nature?
PhilX
Yes, and yes. To the first, different things can be beautiful in their own way. To the second, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, what is beautiful to one may not be beautiful to another.
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:38 am
by vegetariantaxidermy
The golden ratio.
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:42 am
by Philosophy Explorer
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:The golden ratio.
Care to elaborate? (e.g. architecture, Fibonacci numbers, flowers)
PhilX
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:23 pm
by vegetariantaxidermy
Philosophy Explorer wrote:vegetariantaxidermy wrote:The golden ratio.
Care to elaborate? (e.g. architecture, Fibonacci numbers, flowers)
PhilX
Look up 'golden ratio and the human face'. You might not like Angelina Jolie's face (the subjective part), but there is no denying the aesthetically pleasing proportions of it (the objective part).
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:14 pm
by Ansiktsburk
Beauty in a person : Probability of successful reproduction. Defects are no-no. Big muscles are good for knocking elephants over their heads and killing invading lions. Big boobs and curved hips are symbols for birth and nurturing babys.
Beauty more generally, cannot see anything objective in it, more than maybe in a sense that things commonly suggested as beautiful makes good starting points for discussion. Sunsets of the right kind seem to fascinate most people, but i would still guess that it stimulates some good synapses and stuff in the brain for some reason, cannot really see why.
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:41 pm
by jackles
Beauty is the love of a local thing by the nonlocal consciousness that the thing is inside of.
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:28 am
by duszek
Beautiful is what makes you relax and smile.
A sunset, a small smiling child, Duke Ellington orchestra playing, a plate of warm tasty food when you are hungry.
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:45 am
by jackles
Yes 'you, is consciousness which them nice things are inside of.
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:45 am
by jackles
Yes 'you, is consciousness which them nice things are inside of.
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:47 am
by jackles
You. You is consciousness
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:52 am
by duszek
Yeeeeeeeeeeeees.
How about "we" ?
Beauty makes us smile and relax. Or a human being.
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:09 pm
by jackles
Exactly we as in common . The only true common is consciousness . True happiness is happiness without attachment to the object of beauty consciouse awareness of beauty is beauty. So all beauty is really consciousness.
Re: Different types of beauty
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:35 pm
by duszek
So if there is a beautiful rose on the moon and nobody to see it then the rose´s beauty does not exist.
How about a beautiful jewel which sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean when the ship Titanic collided with an iceberg.
Has the jewel stopped being beautiful because no conscious human being is there to notice it ?