This is the crux for me. Knowing beauty vs. feeling it. It intrigues me.
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What is Beauty?
- Thread starter Nakosis
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But it is still eliciting some feeling from you. If you like the feeling, you buy the art.
Sure, life is good. Evolution has set us up to be geared towards life.
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
Indeed.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There is a saying from Naples, Italy: every beetle is beautiful to its mother.
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- viole
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but beauty is still beauty.
No it's not. It's more than that. Beauty is a thing that is part of evolution. It plays a part in sexual selection, for one role it plays. It doesn't matter if one creature sees another as not beautiful. It's the one that do, that the existence of beauty is what it is for, and why it is. It communicates meaning. It's still Beauty. Regardless if you or I think so or not.
Yes, in the eye of the beholder. As I said. I do not find male beetles particularly sexy, but I am sure some female beetle does.
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- viole
That of course, does not diminish anything I originally said.
No, it just confirms what I said at the beginning. Repetita Iuvant, I guess.
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- viole
or you create the art. Or appreciate the art because purchase is not the sole measure of the value of any given piece of art.
And all of these are emotional responses -- and emotional responses are the output of the algorithms that make us what we are. They are all, therefore, 100% subjective, and because they are subjective, they are all subject to change -- what we may find beautiful, or shocking or amusing on one day we might respond to differently on another day.
Shadow Wolf
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Where have I seen that from?
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
Grandad!
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I wonder how it would come across if those chemicals were unrespondent? Would the beauty become altered?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I think Medusa is more sexy and beautiful.
Therin lay the threads premise I think.
I just turned to stone.
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
Are you saying that beauty is something that is "out there" as something objective, and that a person may or may not perceive the beauty that is there, irrespective of perceiver?
It would seem to me that beauty is a term used in a personal, subjective response (the same as any other aesthetic judgment).
Gargovic Malkav
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The Beholder is a creature from the Dungeons & Dragons universe.