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Category: Art & Design
Tags: beauty, objective, definition
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There is no objective definition of beauty  
  • because: beauty has different forms of expression in the eyes of different people  

  • but: beauty is an order of parts in their mutual relations to each other and in their relation to the whole (Baumgarten (1930) ) 

  • because: beauty consists of variety in unity (Cousin (1930) ) 

    • but: a variety of ugly things in unity is not beautiful  

  • because: beauty is the aim of all art (Winckelmann (1930) ) 

    • but: the aim of art is what is good  

      • but: beauty does not include the concept of 'good'  

        • but: beauty always has a moral foundation  

      • because: beauty is that which evokes and educates moral feelings (Sulzer (1930) ) 

  • because: beauty is the manifestation of the absolutely Perfect (Tolstoy (1930) ) 

    • but: mostly-symmetrical faces are beautiful, but totally symmetrical ones are weird (Wikipedia Facial Symmetry (2009) Section: Interpersonal attraction) 

    • but: there is no perfect beauty in the world (Schnaase (1930) ) 

      • because: beauty is an illusion  

    • but: the manifestation of the Idea is also beautiful  

      • because: it is true  

        • because: truth is beauty (Hegel (1930) ) 

    • because: perfection is pleasing  

  • because: beauty is a matter of personal taste  

    • but: taste can be educated  

    • because: it is only perceived subjectively  


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