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2007-10-15 23:11:09 · 17 answers · asked by Third P 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Not much now; more as we grow in experience and wisdom.
This may help from a Public Domain Revelation of Truth:
Page-646 Philosophy you somewhat grasp, and divinity you comprehend in worship, social service, and personal spiritual experience, but the pursuit of beauty-- cosmology--you all too often limit to the study of man's crude artistic endeavors. Beauty, art, is largely a matter of the unification of contrasts. Variety is essential to the concept of beauty. The supreme beauty, the height of finite art, is the drama of the unification of the vastness of the cosmic extremes of Creator and creature. Man finding God and God finding man -- the creature becoming perfect as is the Creator -- that is the supernal achievement of the supremely beautiful, the attainment of the apex of cosmic art.
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2007-10-16 02:31:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hi,
Beauty can be seen in so many different things and in so many different ways, how can we try to explain how we know why a 'thing' is beutiful. I see beauty in a mountain, a lake, a stream, I seem beauty in a blade of grass, an icicle, a spider's web. I see beauty in a face that might hide a shallow or evil personality inside and I would not therefore call that person 'beautiful'. I see beauty in a spirit whose body is old and weary or in someone who may not be pleasing to the eye but I will call them 'beautiful'. Why is a thing beautiful? Because it touches my heart.
Pollyanna
2007-10-16 01:43:51 · answer #2 · answered by pollyanna 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No.
This is cause to many different people beauty is very different thus what may beautiful to you may be ugly to different people.
For example to many today being slim and having white teeth is a beauty. But did you know in some countries fat is beautiful and to some others the blacker the teeth the more beautiful the lady?
2007-10-15 23:24:03 · answer #3 · answered by lambo 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It is more important or valuable to know why and how everything is not beautiful, the spiritual affliction. Knowing why a thing is beautiful is as diverse and exact as knowing why existence and why existence for a thing. A thing-in-its-self is understood as that thing in its own class, but my sensory perception for it is likewise a thing-in-its-self, and in a different moment a different thing-in-its-self. In the light of that, self comprehension and illumination is as much a part of sensory appreciation as a lack of it.
The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.
2007-10-16 14:45:11 · answer #4 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes- Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita "Anything that is beautiful or glorious is but a spark of my splendor." So if we see something beautiful or wonderful then we must know that is just a minute particle of the Unlimited beauty of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna, (also known as Allah, Jehovah, Vishnu, Rama, etc.) Thanks for the beautiful question.
2007-10-16 04:52:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the potentially for exact knowledge of why things are beautiful exists, but I don't think the philosophy of aesthetics is well-developed enough yet.
However, there are varying philosophies of aesthetics that attempt to understand beauty.
2007-10-16 05:25:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
not exactly, i don't think. i think there are some aesthetic principles that seem to have constancy, but a good deal of what we take for granted as imminent is probably historical. if you look closely at aesthetic standards of a given era, and then at wider cultural norms, you can find resonances, but you're unlikely to pin down an exact definition, or cause and effect. (In looking at an era not your own, you may be too far from it to see it clearly; in looking at your own, you're too near...)
edit: is this homework???
edit: foucault and eagleton and raymond williams are good starting points for this perspective.
2007-10-15 23:59:14 · answer #7 · answered by h 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1. A one thing a woman may lose and never knew it is gone.
2. Beautiful as a drug-store blonde....by: my teenaged son
3.Beautiful is a rustic bridge over a mountain stream.
4. Beauty of the world has two edges, one laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.....Virginia Woolf
2007-10-15 23:23:19 · answer #8 · answered by Gingo! 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Beauty is the most subjective quantity that can exist.
There is no definitive answer.
2007-10-16 04:27:06 · answer #9 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to a theory, symmetry is beautiful to a baby.
2007-10-16 05:26:34 · answer #10 · answered by Crazy and Lovin It 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋